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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to the White House on the second day of a partial government shutdown that has furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers and closed military cemeteries as far away as France. Republican and Democratic leaders agreed to meet Wednesday afternoon but showed no signs of yielding.
Much of the government has been on hold since early Tuesday — ruining vacations, robbing businesses of customers and even idling many in the nation's spy force — in a dispute over Republicans' efforts to block or postpone Obama's health care law.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama wasn't backing down from his refusal to negotiate health care in return for reopening the government. Obama called the lawmakers in to impress upon them the shutdown's consequences and to remind them of the importance of raising the nation's borrowing limit before mid-October.
"He will not offer concessions to Republicans in exchange for not tanking the economy," Carney said.
Some in both parties have ominously suggested the impasse might last for weeks, with tea party-backed conservatives especially committed to the fight, while a few Republicans seemed ready to blink.
House Speaker John Boehner's office cast the White House invitation as a sign the president might be backing down.
"We're pleased the president finally recognizes that his refusal to negotiate is indefensible," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said. "It's unclear why we'd be having this meeting if it's not meant to be a start to serious talks between the two parties."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office expressed skepticism. "Frankly, we're a little confused as to the purpose of this meeting," said Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, R-Ky.
Nevertheless, McConnell, R-Ky., and Boehner, R-Ohio, agreed to sit down with Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Reid, for his part, offered a new round of budget talks to House Republicans if they allow the government to reopen.
He proposed that the talks occur on a nonbinding measure known as a budget resolution that can serve as a template for follow-up legislation on the budget. Democrats have been pressing for official negotiations on the budget resolution for some time, but Republicans have resisted, saying they won't give any ground on taxes.
Boehner rejected Reid's offer, said spokesman Michael Steel.
There were some rumblings from Republicans who wanted to reopen the government.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., accused tea party-backed lawmakers of trying to "hijack the party" and said he senses that a growing number of rank-and-file House Republicans — perhaps as many as a hundred — are tired of the shutdown that began Tuesday morning and will be meeting to look for a way out.
But GOP leaders and tea party-backed members seemed determined to press on. The House GOP leadership announced plans to pass five bills to provide more funds to popular parts of the government — national parks, the Veterans Administration, the National Guard, some medical research and the Washington, D.C., government.
The White House promised a veto, saying opening the government on a piecemeal basis is unacceptable. "It's a gimmick and it's unsustainable and it's not serious," Carney said.
Democrats in Congress said it was unfair to pick winners and losers as federal employees worked without a guarantee of getting paid and the effects of the partial shutdown rippled through the country and the economy.
Funding for much of the U.S. government was halted after Republicans hitched a routine spending bill to their effort to kill or delay the health care law they call "Obamacare."
Meanwhile, another financial showdown even more critical to the economy was looming. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told Congress that unless lawmakers act in time, he will run out of money to pay the nation's bills by Oct. 17. Congress must periodically raise the limit on government borrowing to keep U.S. funds flowing, a once-routine matter that has become locked in battles over the federal budget deficit.
Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the second-ranking House Democrat, said Democrats would overwhelmingly accept a short-term spending measure to reopen the government and increase the nation's debt limit while other political differences are worked out. "That would be a responsible way to go," Hoyer told CNN.
At issue is the need to pass a temporary funding bill to keep the government open for the new budget year that began Tuesday.
Congress has passed more than 100 temporary funding bills since the last shutdown in 1996, virtually all of them without controversy. The streak was broken because conservative Republicans have held up the current measure in the longshot hope of derailing or delaying Obamacare, just as the health insurance exchanges at the heart of the law opened on Tuesday.
Some 800,000 federal workers — more than a third of the government's civilian employees — deemed nonessential were staying home again Wednesday in the first partial shutdown since the winter of 1995-96.
Even spy agencies felt the effects. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper told Congress that roughly 70 percent of the intelligence workforce — including the CIA and National Security Agency — have been furloughed but he's trying to keep enough people to guard against potential threats.
Across the nation, America roped off its most hallowed symbols: the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, the Statue of Liberty in New York, Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, the Washington Monument.
Yosemite, the Everglades, the Smoky Mountains and other sites put up "Closed" signs and shooed campers away. Couples planning to wed in national parks, rafters ready for once-in-a-lifetime trips through the Grand Canyon, and tourists who came from South Korea to see Hawaiian volcanoes all got the boot.
The far-flung effects reached France, where tourists were barred from the U.S. cemetery overlooking the D-Day beaches at Normandy. Twenty-four military cemeteries abroad have been closed.


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TFS 2012 Upgrade Process Template–Guide
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Many customers are upgrading from TFS 2010 or earlier versions to TFS 2012 and in near future will upgrade to TFS 2013. As Microsoft making the upgrade process of TFS a very smooth process there are still things we need to upgrade in our Team Project process template things that will not happened in the TFS Upgrade Process. So which things? the Team Project Process Template – Work Items, Queries, Reports, Categories and more. There are couple of scenarios you interesting in: Upgrade the same Process Template to the latest version. ...
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Health Official Urges Food Safety Over Holidays
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota's state epidemiologist is reminding residents to cook and store foods at proper temperatures over the holidays.
Dr. Lon Kightlinger says it's not uncommon for holiday pot-lucks at schools, churches, offices or other gatherings to result in food-borne outbreaks.
Those preparing meals should also wash their hands thoroughly, cook and store foods at proper temperatures and don't prepare food when they're sick.
Food-borne illness symptoms can include mild or severe diarrhea, fever, vomiting and abdominal pain. Most people recover on their own without medication but some need fluids to prevent dehydration.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that each year food-borne illness sickens roughly one in six Americans - or 48 million people
Some 128,000 people are hospitalized each year and 3,000 die.
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Do you earn for the waves? but not in a conventional surfboard kinda way. You want to treat the ocean like your own personal amusement park. Boost off those lips, ride the waves like a burm. smash the waves to bits, jump over them, land on top of them with generally really powered moves.
Do you use a TT or mutant in the waves and love to go super fast and aggressive.
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Feel how comfortable your child feet feel in our TITOTs! Stylish, colorful and comfortable slippers for moms, grandmothers, friends and you! The outside is made of high weight cotton canvas, which is more resistant to rubbing than cotton fabric, inside is padded with organic bamboo velour. The sole inside is soft sherpa, and outside - micro suede. Complete the set of your favorite slippers for yourself and your child! Slippers are also an ideal gift for Women's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas or for a birthday! TITOTs are a nice surprise for every woman in your life. Feet in our slippers do not sweat. The use of natural fabrics gives comfort and coyness, while the soft sole protects your feet against artificial flooring. Available sizes: EU 35. - 42. Materials:
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By Robyn Collins
(RADIO.COM) – Rock musician Sammy Hagar and Maroon 5's Adam Levine are making drinks together. The two celebs have partnered to develop a new tequila blended with mezcal.
The dream began when the two were drinking together in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Hagar and Levine mixed some tequila and mezcal together and liked the taste.
"When we came up with that name, mezquila, the whole road opened up," Hagar told USA Today. "We know what we're going to do. It's the first mezquila. We've invented a new product."
One good reason that Hagar may have wanted to get back into the agave booze business, is that tequila sales outpaced overall spirits industry growth in 2016, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S.
Their Santo Mezquila is an 80-proof blend of both spirits that's priced at $55 per bottle.
Tequila is a type of mezcal made from blue agave, while mezcal can be made from other forms of agave.
Hagar went back to the Mexican distillery that originally worked with him to make his Cabo Wabo Tequila, a brand he founded 1996, and after several different blends, the new business partners found a taste they liked.
"It comes on like tequila and you smell a little bit of smoke in it but is toned down to where you get a sweet finish," Hagar said. "It's taking tequila to another level. When you blend the two you get a higher spirit, a brand new taste."
Hagar and Levine will launch Santo Mezquila in L.A. on Friday, February 10. Over the next month or so, it will ship to Las Vegas, California, New York, Texas and Florida.
Kara Newman, of Wine Enthusiast and author of Shake. Stir. Sip.: More than 50 Effortless Cocktails Made in Equal Parts says, "Hagar already has a track record with his first tequila brand. He was one of the first to put his name on a tequila. He was early in, and in my opinion, he was too early out," she said.
The "Red Rocker" would disagree. He has said, "You can't make a tequila now, there's so much competition." Hagar sold his stake in Cabo Wabo to the Campari Group for nearly $100 million.
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Ok, so im trying to do stuff in the WE for the first time (first serious attempt, anyway), so please bear with me if im asking really dumb questions, or if im doing stuff in a non-efficient manner. Im still at the very bottom of the learning curve
Im trying to convert a boardgame to a WC3 mod, and the first problem ive encountered is that of moving the pieces about the playing field.
So far i have made the playing board (26 by 15 squares), and on that i have made a region for each square, and named the regions A1 through to Z15.
The movement trigger i am working on is something like this:
- Event: a unit is picked
- Condition: The picked unit has movement points remaining (I have substituted INT for movement points, so that each unit has a fixed value)
- Action: Unit is ordered to move to adjacant region.......
And thats where the chain breaks for me. Im looking for a way to make a selected unit move from the region it is currently in, to one of the 8 adjacant regions, like for instance if the unit is standing in region F6, it should be able to move to either E5, E6, E7, F5, F7, G5, G6 or G7.
But, by now i have spent the last half hour browsing through the different drop down menus (yes, in using GUI, so go ahead and flame me), and i just cant seem to find anything that will allow me to make such an action.
Im certain that it is possible to do, but with my total lack of kowledge about the WE, i thought that i would probably be better off asking some of you more experienced guys.
So, any good ideas??
(I dont necessarily need a pre-coded solution, just a hint as to the right direction would be very much appreciated.)


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Cruise Port schedule, live map, terminals, news
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Port Crinan cruise ship schedule shows timetable calendars of all arrival and departure dates by month. The port's schedule lists all ships (in links) with cruises going to or leaving from Crinan, Scotland. To see the full itineraries (ports of call dates and arrival / departure times) and their lowest rates – just follow the corresponding ship-link.
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The Crinan cruise port map is interactive. It shows the port's exact location, along with the real-time cruise ship traffic (if any) in its vicinity - today, and right now. By zooming-out you can see other cruise ship ports located near Crinan, Scotland.
If you lose the Crinan location on the map, simply reload the page (also with F5 button). This feature is integrated with the CruiseMapper's cruise ship tracker tracking the vessels' current positions at sea and in ports.


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SAN DIEGO -- Randy Bergstedt, vice president of marketing for Star Trac, is leaving the company to become the new executive vice president of efi Sports Medicine, San Diego.
Bergstedt, who will be responsible for product development and marketing at efi effective Sept. 8, spent 12 years at Irvine, CA-based Star Trac, where he helped the company expand into new markets and triple in revenue.
"The addition of Bergstedt to the efi team is a critical step in our growth plans as we strive to expand our product offerings and enter new markets," Tom Campanaro, CEO of efi Sports Medicine, said in a statement. "His experience and passion for the fitness business will help him hit the ground running and integrate into the fantastic team we already have in place."
Star Trac has undergone numerous personnel changes in recent weeks. Steve Nero resigned as president in May, followed by about 100 layoffs that coincided with the company's consolidation. Last month, Michael Bruno, Land America Health and Fitness Co. owner, acquired Star Trac.
"Randy has been at Star Trac for 12 ½ years, where he was a key contributor to our growth during this time," Star Trac President Mike Leveque said in a statement. "One of our core values is to develop people, and we are proud to have been part of his professional growth, which has helped him move on to bigger opportunities. The entire Star Trac family wishes him well."
In addition to efi's Gravity workout program, which is in more than 200 U.S. cities and 22 countries, efi also has recently unveiled its new dual-ring Total Gym PlyoRebounder as well as a line of vibration training equipment, i-Shape and Zen Pro. efi's flagship Total Gym functional bodyweight resistance training equipment has been used in the commercial fitness, athletic training and rehabilitation industries for more than 35 years.
"There are numerous opportunities for growth at efi, and I am excited to be a part of capitalizing on them," Bergstedt said in a statement. "The Total Gym brand is one of the strongest and most recognized consumer fitness brands in the world, and getting to be a part of writing the next chapter with the owners, Tom and Joy Campanaro, was the catalyst for leaving a great company like Star Trac."
Bergstedt has more than 20 years of experience in marketing in the sports and fitness industries. In addition to Star Trac, Bergstedt has worked with brands such as Spinning, Major League Baseball, Spalding, Ironman and Budweiser. He graduated with honors with a business degree from Pepperdine University, where he was a member of the 1986 NCAA championship volleyball team.


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Merry Christmas from Hawaii!
This is the first year in a long time that I stood in the back row for our family photo. You can see how much taller my sons are!
And my granddaughter, Madeleine, is now 15 months old. She is such a joy. Our whole family revolves around her.
From our extended family to yours, best wishes for a very safe, happy, healthy and prosperous holiday season. And in the coming year, I hope that your Karate training is safe and rewarding.
Charles C. Goodin


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The Inference Web is a Semantic Web based knowledge provenance infrastructure that supports interoperable explanations of sources, assumptions, learned information, and answers as an enabler for trust.
- Provenance - if users (humans and agents) are to use and integrate data from unknown, uncertain, or multiple sources, they need provenance metadata for evaluation
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The Inference Web consists of two important components:
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With the USDA's October Crop Production report, corn and soybean supply forecasts for the 2011-12 marketing year are likely close to the final estimates, said University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good.
"Prices will be primarily influenced by the current rate of consumption and expectations about consumption during the remainder of the marketing year. The actual rate of consumption will be revealed sporadically and in some cases slowly. Expectations about future consumption will likely vary widely," he said.
For corn, the current supply forecast of 13.576 billion bushels is 606 million bushels smaller than last year's supply and the smallest supply in five years. Assuming that year-ending stocks will not be less than 5 percent of consumption, consumption of U.S. corn during the current marketing year will be limited to 12.93 billion bushels, 123 million bushels (about 1 percent) less than consumed last year.
The USDA currently forecasts consumption at 12.71 billion bushels, 343 million bushels (2.6 percent) less than consumed last year.
According to Good, exports are expected to be 235 million bushels (12.8 percent) smaller, feed and residual use is expected to decline by 103 million bushels (2 percent), ethanol and by-product use is expected to decline by 20 million bushels (0.4 percent), and other food and industrial uses are expected to increase by 15 million bushels (1.1 percent).
"At 1.6 billion bushels, U.S. corn exports are expected to be at the lowest level in nine years due to increased competition from larger corn and wheat exports from other origins. The largest increases are expected for Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine due to a 40 percent increase in production over last year's drought-reduced crops," he said.
To reach the USDA forecast of 1.6 billion bushels, U.S. corn exports need to average about 30.7 million bushels per week. Through the first five weeks of the marketing year, export inspections averaged only 28 million bushels per week.
New export sales, however, have been relatively large. Those sales averaged 50.2 million bushels per week for the two weeks ending Oct. 6. Sales of 10.3 million bushels to Mexico were reported on Oct. 11, and sales of 35.4 million bushels to China and 11.5 million bushels to unknown destinations were reported on Oct. 13. The weekly pace of new sales will have to average only about 17 million bushels to bring sales to 1.6 billion bushel.
Ethanol production
Ethanol production during the first five and a half weeks of the marketing year was about 1 percent larger than during the same period last year, suggesting that corn consumption for ethanol and by-products production is progressing at about the same pace as last year.
"Current ethanol production margins are large, and ethanol consumption is supported by favorable blending margins and strong exports. Ethanol production is expected to remain above the pace of a year ago through the first quarter of the marketing year.
"There is some uncertainty about production in 2012 as the blender's tax credit expires," he said.
Feed and residual use of corn remains under a cloud of uncertainty due to the extremely low level of consumption implied for the 2010-11 marketing year.
"The placement of broiler-type chicks was 8.3 percent below the level of a year ago for the two weeks ending Oct. 8. Cattle-on-feed numbers are expected to fall below the level of the previous year beginning in early 2012.
"The continuation of record high hog prices, however, should result in stable hog numbers for an extended period," he said.
The pace of feed consumption will not be revealed until the December Grain Stocks report is released in the second week of January.
The supply of U.S. soybeans for the 2011-12 marketing year is estimated at 3.25 billion bushels, 205 million smaller than last year's supply. Consumption will be limited to the 3.13 billion bushels projected by the USDA, 150 million bushels (4.7 percent) below the consumption of a year ago.
"Almost all of that reduction (125 million bushels) is expected to be in the export market, reflecting increased competition from South American soybeans. The domestic crush is expected to decline by 13 million bushels, or 0.8 percent," Good said.
The Census Bureau has discontinued the monthly report of soybean crush so estimates will be based on monthly reports from the National Oilseed Processors Association.
That report for September indicated an 11.7 percent year-over-year decline in the domestic crush. The pace will obviously have to accelerate in order to reach the USDA projection.
"The pace of U.S. soybean exports and export sales are running well below the torrid pace of a year ago. China bought and imported large quantities of U.S. soybeans early in the marketing year last year. Shipments plus outstanding sales are currently about 25 percent behind the level of a year ago, but the gap is expected to narrow over the next several weeks," he said.
Expectations about the strength of demand and the rate of corn and soybean consumption hinge on a combination of South American crop prospects and global economic conditions. Again, those factors will unfold over the next few months.
"After the wide swings of the last three months, a much narrower trading range is expected for both corn and soybeans prices into the winter months," Good added.


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Video: Tapas at the Walloon Lake Inn Near Petoskey
For 30 years Chef David Beier has been serving fine, creative cuisine at his 110-year-old Walloon Lake Inn. Recently, Beier began serving tapas small plates so that his customers could enjoy a range of flavors and ingredients in the course of an evening. Watch Beier make Piquillo peppers stuffed with Swiss chard served with mousseline sauce, phyllo dough purses filled with shrimp, mushrooms and spinach and sausage in brioche.
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The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) and more than 80 of its members are in Washington, DC, this week to meet with administration officials and members of Congress as part of ACE's annual legislative fly-in.
Yesterday and today, ACE and its members have been in nearly 170 meetings with lawmakers or their staffs representing 45 states. ACE members will also meet with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, EPA Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe, and Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Dan Utech.
Fuel retailers are also participating in the fly-in. "These retailers have installed equipment to sell E15 and E85, and share with legislators their first-hand success with getting over the E10 blend wall," said Chuck Beck, public affairs director, ACE. Moreover, most of the retailers were willing to share their sales figures showing the growing interest in higher ethanol blends, he added. "They all pointed out that the equipment and infrastructure costs are not as bad as Big Oil argues," Beck said. "They also tried to show how restrictive oil chain contracts can be if a retailer wants to remain a branded station. We felt this was an important rebuttal to the free market argument that the anti-ethanol forces in Congress try to point out."
Asked about the feedback that ACE and its members have received about EPA's proposal to reduce the volume requirements in the RFS for 2014, Beck said, "We've heard a variety of responses on the RFS. Some say it's unlikely the issue will be addressed in Congress this year given the limited amount of working days left on the legislative calendar. However, during one of our meetings, it was mentioned that a Republican senator from the South tried to tack onto the Ukrainian aid bill an amendment that would eliminate the RFS within five years. Regarding the EPA's proposal, our attendees, based on what we have heard in Washington this week, feel cautiously optimistic that the final rule may be a little friendlier to us than EPA first proposed."


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You all saw how beautiful my oldest sister's yard looks in Michigan and my middle sister's yard looks in Oregon, so I figured I would show you what my yard looks like in Minnesota!
Then here is our garden:
It is still pretty little, but big enough for our family. We have a row of cucumbers, 2 rows of green beans, 2 rows of onions, 3 green pepper plants, 2 bushel boy tomato plants, 1 cherry tomato plant, a few different types of lettuce and a couple strawberry plants (which have yet to produce strawberries!)
Here are my herbs:
I have, from left to right, parsley, oregano, chives, cilantro and basil (my favorite!).


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Clinton refuses to testify twice on Benghazi attacks
Former secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed Monday to testify once, but not twice, before the special House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton attorney David Kendall, in a letter to the committee released by the Democrats, said Clinton could appear the week of May 18, as scheduled. But he rejected the committee's request that Clinton testify at the first hearing about her email records and at a separate hearing later about events surrounding the Benghazi attacks.
Kendall said the committee should cover both topics the same day. "The Secretary is fully prepared to stay for the duration of the committee's questions on the day she appears," Kendall wrote to Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the special committee. Gowdy has said committee members aren't willing to question Clinton about Benghazi until they're sure they have all relevant State Department emails and documents. Gowdy has challenged whether all Benghazi-related emails stored on a server at Clinton's private residence were provided and has questioned her use of a private email account to conduct official government business.
Clinton, a Democratic candidate for president in 2016, was secretary of State when four Americans were killed, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, in the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks. The House voted one year ago this week to create the special panel to investigate security lapses surrounding the attacks, the military's delayed response and whether the Obama administration initially downplayed the incident for political reasons.


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Obama Announces $70M Robotics Initiative
At least we know that Skynet still has a bit more work ahead of it before the walking, shooting cyborgs from James Cameron's Terminator 2 become reality. And you can thank President Obama for that.
"You might not know this, but one of my responsibilities as commander-in-chief is to keep an eye on robots," said Obama in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center Friday. "And I'm pleased to report that the robots you manufacture here seem peaceful. At least for now."
Let's hope that stays true, as Obama also announced that the U.S. is launching brand-new $70 million initiative "to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or cooperatively with, people." Dubbed the National Robotics Initiative, the plan is backed by a smattering of important governmental acronym-agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The end goals of the program are a little nebulous so far, as it's unclear whether the ultimate purpose of the initiative is to try and integrate robotics into consumer lifestyles or accelerate the use of robots in industrial lines of work. The initiative will partly research just how robots and humans can work together in innovative and symbiotic ways perhaps even how they could become friends?
"Methods for the establishment and infusion of robotics in educational curricula and research to gain a better understanding of the long term social, behavioral and economic implications of co-robots across all areas of human activity are important parts of this initiative," says the NSF.
Obama's unveiling of the initiative came as part of a larger stimulus announcement: A $500 million package designed to boost America's manufacturing industry by combining the resources of government agencies, educational institutions, and corporations to spearhead new research and development opportunities.
The idea is to invest in what the government calls "critical enablers," or anchor technologies that, once released, could allow a wide variety of manufacturers to make their own processes and products more cost-competitive, speed up their time to market, and ultimately increase the strength of what they've created. Think nanotechnology, for example, where new breakthroughs could lead to lighter and stronger materials for use in automobile developmenta car that maintains its safe design, but using a lighter form that could increase its overall fuel economy.
And maybejust maybea robot could be working alongside a human during the car's development and manufacturing.
"Investing in robotics is more than just money for research and development, it is a vehicle to transform American lives and revitalize the American economy," said Helen Greiner, president of the Robotics Technology Consortium "Indeed, we are at a critical juncture where we are seeing robotics transition from the laboratory to generate new businesses, create jobs and confront the important challenges facing our nation."
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Igor, the icon king of Phatch, asked me if I could get sk1 to work on Ubuntu Gutsy. After playing around I found a way. Try this on your own risk.
I never heard about sk1 and looked it up on the website:
Why sk1project?It looks quite impressive and in five steps you can have it up and running on your Ubuntu Gutsy. It is a KDE application.
We think that sK1 is a powerful illustration program for the Linux platform that can substitute professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator and we hope the program and its derivatives will be helpful for you.
About sK1 vector graphics editor
sK1 is an open source vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, or Freehand.
First of all sK1 is oriented for PostScript processing.
The major sK1 features:
* CMYK colorspace support
* CMYK support in Postscript
* Cairo-based engine
* Color managment
* Universal CDR importer (7-X3 versions)
* Modern Ttk based (former Tile widgets) user interface
1) Installing required modules
Type this at a terminal:
sudo apt-get install liblcms-utils python-liblcms python-imaging-tk kdebase-bin2) Installing tcl/tk8.5
Download the tk8.5 and tcl8.5 packages of Gustavo A. Díaz for the amsn project:
Open and install these files in this order with gdebi:
3) Installing sk1
Now download the latest version of sk1 from:
And convert it to a debian installer:
sudo alien sK1-0.9.0-rev324-0.mdv2008.i586.rpm4) Patching sk1
We need to patch this file:
sudo gedit /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sk1/app/managers/colormanager.py
Replace there on line 9:
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from lcms.lcms import (...)5) Start sk1
Press Alt+F2 and type "sk1" at the terminal and sk1 is up and running! You can create a menu entry with alacarta or a desktop launcher with the command "sk1". I have not tested how well it works.
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Theorising illegal rural enterprise: is everyone at it? (Ohio State University https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/51127/IJRC_mcelwee_vol1-issue1_pp40-62.pdf, 2011-12)MCELWEE, G., SMITH, R. and SOMERVILLE, P., 2011. Theorising illegal rural enterprise: is everyone at it? International Journal of Rural Criminology, 1 (1), pp. 40 – 62.Illegal entrepreneurship in the rural is under researched and scrutinised, yet it occupies a distinctive space in entrepreneurship practice in terms of how it is construed and how it is enacted. This is a theoretical ...


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Monday, November 7, 2011
* Fall Craft for Kids: Coffee Filter Leaves
"C" made the prettiest coffee filter leaves at preschool last week
so big sister "E" and I wanted to make some more with her at home.
We made so many leaves, we now have this beautiful display in our playroom!
We studied "C"s leaves to figure out how she made them.
She said they used coffee filters and Do-A-Dot markers so we gave it a go.
I thought they may have used bleeding tissue paper or liquid watercolors,
but she was very definitive when she said how they made them
so we went along with it. : )
We started by cutting out some free-form leaf shapes from some coffee filters.
Then, we spread out some newspaper to protect our craft surface
(in this case, it was the floor... I'm not sure why we always end up sitting on the floor
and crafting instead of working at the table!)
We used our Do-A-Dot markers to make pretty patterns
but the colors weren't bleeding like the ones "C" made at school.
They were still very pretty and artsy.
All three of us had fun making them!
So, we tried wetting some filters first and that
pretty much just made a mess and she said the ones at school were dry.
We decided to just stick with making leaves with the dot markers,
they were still pretty.
Hmmm.....it was a bit of a crafting mystery.
I asked her teacher about it the next day and we solved the mystery.
They DID use coffee filters for the leaves but they
used liquid watercolors inside of bingo markers
and that's why the leaves they made bled and ours didn't!
When the "leaves" dried,
we taped them up in our big playroom window.
They're so bright and cheerful, it makes me smile
every time I walk past the playroom.
Happy (use what you have) Crafting!
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Dear Carolyn: My mother is a crazy cat lady. She has been doing better in recent years, down to 15 cats instead of 40 or 50, motivated by the arrival of her first grandchild, my son. We live on opposite sides of the country, and it was too hard to travel when she had so many cats. I come home about twice a year and I stay elsewhere due to the odor in my parents' house. Certainly not ideal, but we adjust.
I took the baby when he was 8 weeks old and hardly saw my mom. She was busy "working" (unpaid) for her vet. I was hurt and angry but mostly ignored it.
Today, I called and heard all of these kittens crying in the background. We've had numerous conversations about not having bottle-fed kittens when I visit. They have to eat every two hours, and we would never see my mom! After I mentioned that, she got snarky and said something about my having to bottle-feed my kiddo.
If she does have the kittens while I'm in town or chooses to work instead of spending time with us, what do I say? If she sees us every day, how do I express my gratitude without sounding critical, i.e., "It's so nice you finally put us first!"? I've suggested counseling over the years, to no avail.
DEAR K.: You're showing a distinct bias — dogs, forgive me — against cats and cat people.
I'm aware of the many animals/hoarding/animal neglect continuum, and 40-plus cats is extreme. However, your mom voluntarily reduced the herd, which suggests your "crazy" label isn't just insensitive, but also unfair. If she takes good care of her animals, then treat these cats as you would anyone's life purpose, to include asking yourself whether you'd be so dismissive if she were doggedly tending specimens in a lab or volunteering with needy kids.
You have a legitimate set of hurt feelings that your mom blew off you and her grandson. That is where your focus belongs, not on your disdain for the reason. That's especially true since your overall goal is so important: to build a sense of family for your child.
Start by recognizing that it's not productive to force family togetherness or dictate how your mom lives her day-to-day life. If you think about it in a detached, advice-columny way, it makes no sense for her to rearrange all 365 days just for your, say, 10 visiting days.
Next, make "feelings, not felines" your guiding principle. Replace scolding your mom with praising her and clarifying your stance. Maybe: "I've been tough on you about the cats, but really what you do for them is wonderful. I'm just upset that we see you so little." Respecting her will bring you closer.
And where before you've pushed her to change, try accommodating her: "What can I do to help you see more of us?"
And if she blows you off again: "Mom, I'm getting the message that Son and I aren't a priority for you. Please tell me if I'm mistaken."
And if she does make time for you? "Thanks, Mom. This has been great."
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'Dancing with the Stars': Meet the new cast!
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By Breeanna Hare
"Dancing With the Stars" has announced its new lineup of competitors, and at least two of them already know how to go for the gold.
On "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, the ABC dancing competition revealed that Olympic champs Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who just won a historic gold medal at the Winter Olympics in figure skating ice dance, are joining "DWTS'" 18th season.
Instead of competing as a team the way they did at the Sochi Olympics, Davis and White are now up against one another. Davis will partner with returning "DWTS" pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who left the show in 2012 to pursue other opportunities. White has been set up with pro dancer Sharna Burgess.
Here are the other stars Davis and White will face off against:
Candace Cameron Bure: The former "Full House" actress was rumored to be a potential "star" on this season of "DWTS," and Tuesday's announcement confirmed the gossip. Cameron Bure, who recently released a book called "Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose," will be paired with pro dancer Mark Ballas.
NeNe Leakes: As with Cameron Bure, there was speculation that "Real Housewives of Atlanta's" NeNe Leakes was going to grace ABC's ballroom. Leakes, who's also branched out into acting on shows like "Glee," is partnering with Tony Dovolani.
Danica McKellar: Cameron Bure isn't the only child star on season 18's roster. Former "The Wonder Years" actress Danica McKellar is also going to perform each week, with help from pro partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy. McKellar's also created a career as an author, but she still acts here and there and has appeared on "How I Met Your Mother" and "The Big Bang Theory."
Diana Nyad: We've already seen Diana Nyad's persistence in the water, and we can only imagine how it'll carry her in this season's competition. The 64-year-old became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective cage last fall, and will now bring that persistence to the ballroom with pro partner Henry Byalikov.
Drew Carey: Stand-up comic and "The Price Is Right" host Drew Carey is more accustomed to making audiences laugh at his wit than dazzling them with his dance moves, but he'll show what he's got alongside pro partner Cheryl Burke this season.
James Maslow: A member of the band Big Time Rush, James Maslow is one of two pop stars participating in this year's "DWTS." The 23-year-old's pairing off with Peta Murgatroyd.
Cody Simpson: At 17, singer Cody Simpson is the youngest competitor in this season's lineup. The "Pretty Brown Eyes" crooner is going to pair off with new pro dancer Witney Carson.
Amy Purdy: Like some of her competitors, Amy Purdy knows all about the pressure of competition. The double amputee has become a top-ranked snowboarder and Paralympic athlete after losing her legs to meningitis at 19. In this season's "DWTS," she's going to perform with pro partner Derek Hough.
Sean Avery: As a former pro hockey player, Sean Avery is trading in the ice for a dance floor. The athlete/model will dance with pro partner Karina Smirnoff.
Billy Dee Williams: This Hollywood legend is already considering being "DWTS"' secret sauce. At 76, the wide-ranging talent will partner up with pro dancer Emma Slater.
These 12 aren't the only new faces this season. Fox Sports journalist Erin Andrews is also joining the series as its new co-host, replacing Brooke Burke-Charvet as Tom Bergeron's right-hand woman.
The 18th season of "DWTS" will premiere on ABC on March 17.


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- The Ubuntu-Cloud mailing list is a great technical resource where most of the experts and developers are subscribed. For very technical discussions, questions, feature suggestions, RFEs, development discussions the mailing list is a great resource.
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H.S. basketball phenom dies suddenly after game in Georgia
A Georgia high school basketball star ranked by several experts among the top prospects nationally collapsed and died Sunday shortly after a game.
The cause of death is still not known. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Terrell Coleman, 15, had a heart condition.
Coleman was a freshman who played for Miller Grove High School near Atlanta, as well as for the AAU's Atlanta Celtics team. The 6'5", 205-pound small forward nicknamed "Too Tall" was ranked as the 13th-best prospect nationally by future150.com and was one of only 10 players on Prospect Central's freshman watch list.
Beyond his court skills, friends, teammates and coaches praised Coleman as an all-around good kid.
"The kid was just fun to be around. He was a kid with a good spirit and he was hard-working," one of his AAU coaches, Demond Stephens, told CBS affiliate WGCL in Atlanta. "I was calling him 'Smiles' the whole week at the Josh Smith camp. We were there for like, four days, and I interacted with him. He was always smiling the whole week. Getting in there early, staying late. I didn't get anything but a good spirit from the kid."
Miller Grove coach Sharman White told the AJC on Monday: "It's a tragic situation for Terrell's family, and all of us. He was part of our basketball family at Miller Grove. It's just really unfortunate, knowing what kind of person he was. He was a phenomenal basketball player, but I truly have to say he was even a better person. He had a glow about him that was just remarkable."


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Black Bean Lasagna
Quick Facts
Servings: 9
A tasty vegetarian variation on a favorite family-style recipe. Serve with salad and bread for a complete dinner
- 8 oz lasagna noodles, uncooked, (approximately 9 noodles)
- Bean mixture:4 cups black beans, (two 15-ounce cans), divided
- vegetable cooking spray
- 1 cup red bell pepper, (or green pepper), chopped
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 1/3 cups tomato sauce, (one 29-ounce can)
- Cheese filling:2 cups cottage cheese, lowfat
- 8 oz light cream cheese
- 2 egg whites
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped (or fresh parsley)
- 1 cup reduced fat Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Cook noodles until done, drain and set aside.
- Prepare bean mixture: Rinse and drain black beans. Mash one-half of beans and set aside. Spray a medium saucepan with vegetable oil spray and sauté red pepper, onion and garlic until tender. Add mashed beans, whole beans and tomato sauce; simmer for 10–15 minutes.
- Prepare cheese filling: With an electric mixer, combine the cottage cheese, cream cheese and egg whites, stir in the cilantro.
- Assemble: Spray a 9x9-inch (23x23cm) square baking pan with vegetable oil spray. Arrange one-third of the noodles on the bottom of the pan, top with one-third cheese filling, spread on one-third bean mixture. Repeat twice, ending with bean mixture.
- Bake in oven for 30 minutes, remove and top with cheese, return to oven for another 10 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 390
Calories from Fat 88 (23%)
(15%)Total Fat 10g
(28%)Saturated Fat 6g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
(9%)Cholesterol 28mg
(43%)Sodium 1034mg
(23%)Potassium 798mg
Total Carbohydrate 51g
(37%)Dietary Fiber 9g
Sugars 6g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(52%)Protein 26g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — At least 30 NASCAR fans were injured Saturday when a car sailed into the fence at Daytona International Speedway, and large chunks of debris — including a tire — flew into the grandstands. No fatalities were reported from the accident on the last lap of the Nationwide Series race.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — At least 30 NASCAR fans were injured Saturday when a car sailed into the fence at Daytona International Speedway, and large chunks of debris — including a tire — flew into the grandstands. No fatalities were reported from the accident on the last lap of the Nationwide Series race.
The crash began as the field closed in on the finish line, and rookie Kyle Larson's car came upon the wreck and went airborne into the fence that separates the track from the seats.
Large chunks of Larson's car landed in the grandstands, and one of his tires appeared to fly over the fence and land midway up the lower section. The car itself had its entire front end sheared off, with the burning engine wedged through a gaping hole in the fence.
Speedway President Joie Chitwood said 14 fans were treated on site, and 14 others were taken to hospitals. Chitwood didn't give any updates on their conditions.
The number of those transported given by Chitwood was slightly lower than that given by local officials.
Halifax Health spokesman Byron Cogdell said 12 people were transported to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach and six others were taken to Halifax Health Medical Center of Port Orange. All were in stable condition, Cogdell said.
No fatalities were reported at either hospital. Cogdell said two people taken to the Halifax in Daytona Beach arrived in critical condition, and one of those had life-threatening injuries. Both were upgraded to stable condition.
The accident happened the day before the Sprint Cup Series season-opening Daytona 500 — NASCAR's version of the Super Bowl. Daytona workers could be seen repairing the large section of fence where Larson hit, as well as the wall that was damaged in the accident.
As emergency workers tended to injured fans and ambulance sirens wailed in the background, a somber Tony Stewart skipped the traditional post-race victory celebration.
Stewart, who won for the 19th time at Daytona and seventh time in the last nine season-opening Nationwide races, was in no mood to celebrate.
"We've always known, and since racing started, this is a dangerous sport. But it's hard. We assume that risk, but it's hard when the fans get caught up in it," said Stewart, the three-time NASCAR champion.
"I'm more worried about the drivers and the fans that are in the stands right now because that was ... I could see it all in my mirror, and it didn't look good from where I was at."
It was a chaotic finish to a race that was stopped for nearly 20 minutes five laps from the finish by a 13-car accident that sent driver Michael Annett to a hospital, where his Richard Petty Motorsports team said he would be held overnight with bruising to his chest.
The race resumed with three laps to go, and the final accident occurred with Regan Smith leading as he headed out of the final turn to the checkered flag. He admittedly tried to block Brad Keselowski to preserve the win.
"I tried to throw a block. It's Daytona, you want to go for the win here," Smith said. "I don't know how you can play it any different other than concede second place, and I wasn't willing to do that today."
As the cars began wrecking all around Smith and Keselowski, Stewart slid through for the win, but Larson plowed into Keselowski and his car was sent airborne into the stands. When Larson's car came to a stop, it was missing its entire front end. The 20-year-old, who made his Daytona debut this week, stood apparently stunned, hands on his hips, several feet away from his car, before finally making the mandatory trip to the care center.
He said he was along for the ride in the last-lap accident.
"I was getting pushed from behind, I felt like, and by the time my spotter said lift or go low, it was too late," Larson said. "I was in the wreck, and then felt like it was slowing down and I looked like I could see the ground. Had some flames come in the cockpit, but luckily I was all right and could get out of the car quick."
It appeared fans were lined right along the fence when Larson's car sailed up and into it, but Chitwood indicated there was a buffer. He said there would be no changes to the seating before the Daytona 500.
"We don't anticipate moving any of our fans," Chitwood said. "We had our safety protocols in place. Our security maintained a buffer that separates the fans from the fencing area. With the fencing being prepared tonight to our safety protocols, we expect to go racing tomorrow with no changes."
Larson's car appeared to hit where the cross-over gate — a section that can be opened for people to travel back and forth from the infield to the grandstands — is located in the fence. Previous accidents in which drivers hit crossover gates were severe, but the gates were in the wall and not the fence for Mike Harmon's accident at Bristol in 2002 and Michael Waltrip's at the same track in 1990.
Still, NASCAR senior vice president Steve O'Donnell said it would be studied.
Larson had been scheduled to race his sprint car later Saturday night in Ocala, Fla., and even seemed restless to get there during the late stages of the Nationwide race. He pulled out of the event following the accident.
Keselowski watched a replay of the final accident, and said his first thoughts were with the fans. As for the accident, he agreed he tried to make a winning move and Smith tried to block.
"He felt like that's what he had to do, and that's his right. The chaos comes with it," Keselowski said. "I made the move and he blocked it, and the two of us got together and started the chain events that caused that wreck. First and foremost, just want to make sure everyone in the stands is OK and we're thinking about them."


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In this section we describe the computational procedure, assumptions, free parameters, and the quantities which are calculated. Chief among the assumptions is that each model consists of a spherical gas cloud with a point source of continuum radiation at the center. Therefore it implicitly assumes spherical symmetry and radially beamed incident radiation. In principle, more complicated geometries can be mimiced by adding the local emission from various spherical sections with appropriately chosen conditions. Also important is the assumption that all physical processes affecting the state of the gas are in a steady-state, i.e. that the the timescales for variation in the gas density and illuminating radiation are long compared with timescales affecting all atomic processes and propogation of radiation within the gas. The validity of this assumption in any given situation depends on the conditions there, such as the gas density, temperature, and degree of ionization, and can be evaluated by using a model assuming steady-state and then calculating atomic rates which can (hopefully) justify the steady-state assumption a posteriori.
The primary difference between these models and atmospheric models lies in the treatment of the radiation field. In an optically thick atmosphere the state of the gas at any point in the cloud is coupled to the state of the gas in a large part of the rest of the cloud by the continuum radiation field and, in the limit of very large optical depth, can affect the excitation and ionization by suppressing radiative free-bound (recombination) transitions. We attempt to mimic some of these effects by assigning to each recombination event an escape probability, using an expression given in the following section. We also calculate the transfer of radiation by assuming that diffuse radiation emitted at each radius is directed radially outward or inward. These assumptions will be described in more detail later in this section.
A further assumption governs the treatment of the transport of radiation in spectral lines. Over a wide range of plausible situations large optical depths occur in the cores of lines of abundant ions, which may be important in cooling the gas. In treating the transfer of these photons we make the (conventional) assumption of complete redistribution in the scattering, which assumes that the transfer of the line photons occurs in a spatial region very close to the point where the photons are emitted. Therefore the line emission rates are multiplied by an escape probability using an expression given in the following section. This factor is intended to simulate the line scattering in the immediate vicinity of the emission region, and it assumes that escape from this region occurs when the photon scatters into a frequency where the optical depth is less than unity. Following escape from the local region, the line photon is assumed to be subject to absorption by continuum processes which are treated using the same 2-stream transfer equation as for the continuum.


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The weather was glorious for our annual Big Nature Day on Saturday 13 July. Over 4,000 visitors joined us to explore the best of British wildlife in and around the Museum, and soaking up the best of the British heatwave too.
Examining insects and pond life at the outdoor displays in the sunny Wildlife Garden - among the most popular activites at this year's Big Nature Day. Select all images to enlarge them.
Tiny hands get a close encounter with the smooth snake which was brought along by the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation group.
Lucy Robinson, the Museum's citizen science manager and worm charming aficionado, reports back with the day's highlights:
'The marquees and Wildlife Garden were packed with over 30 stands showcasing wildlife as diverse as dragonflies, ferns, snakes and insect-eating plants. The Spotty Dotty puppet show attracted lots of the younger visitors with ladybirds and insect friends.
Left: The Spotty Dotty puppet show entertained the young ones and taught them about ladybirds and more. Right: Lucy reading out the worm charming rules before the teams got stuck in.
'Our worm-charming competition on the front lawn featured some fierce rivalry, but sadly no worms (who were sheltering deep underground from this hot weather!). Neither fork-twanging, stamping or even music could bring the worms to the surface. However, people could see and hold live worms at the Earthworm Society of Britain's stand in the marquee, so they didn't go away too disappointed.
Worm charming competitions on the front lawn in full sway - participants could twang forks, stamp and make music.
'Some unusual and intriguing things the visiting nature groups brought included carnivorous plants from the South London Botanical Institute, a large metal hedgehog sculpture from the People's Trust for Endangered Species, and some live reptiles courtesy of the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation trust.
The People's Trust for Endangered Species stand showed off a fabulous hedgehog sculpture and invited hedgehog mask-making.
'One of the challenges of organising the event was how to keep the reptiles cool on such a hot day – we had to freeze lots of ice packs and wrap them in fabric in their tanks to give the reptiles a cold area where they could cool off when not entertaining our visitors.
Left: Discovering unexpected animals on the ladybird hunt. Right: Spider expert Tom Thomas from the British Naturalists Association leading the spider safari in the Wildlife Garden.
'Making pipe cleaner dragonflies with our dragonfly curator Ben was also really popular (they made over 400 dragonflies before they ran out of materials!). And the spider safari through the Wildlife Garden led by expert Tom Thomas from the British Naturalists Association, along with some fabulous face and body painting.attracted many fans.
Fantastic and original face painting was a hit with families as was zooming in on invertebrates.
'Visitors told us the best parts of the day were seeing the wildlife specimens and meeting all the different nature societies. Kids raved about being able to look through the microcopes, touch the snakes and make lots of things.'
Thanks Lucy. We were also told by our Wildlife Garden team that over 60 insect hotels were made by enthusiastic young visitors, using recycled plastic bottles which they filled with reeds from the Wildlife Garden pond.
Other kids' favourites included the Amateur Enomologists' Society's New Guinea spiny stick insect, the chance to become the Museum's latest specimens on display (right), and dissecting owl pellets (below) with the London Natural History Society.
And the Species Recovery Trust shone the spotlight on some of the UK's rarest species... starved wood sedge, pictured below.
Roll on the next Big Nature Day in 2014.
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Mistakes in the workplace usually result in consequences, but some mistakes have more dire consequences than others.
In some cases, mistakes in judgment can result in consequences affecting an entire community, like prematurely releasing incarcerated criminals suffering from mental illness – or keeping them incarcerated too long.
Such is the risk faced by Karolina Christesson Ringby, a UNF-educated licensed psychologist who is responsible for evaluating the mental state and predicting the future behavior of patients at a forensic psychiatric clinic in Hassleholm, Sweden.
"I work with people who have committed crimes under the influence of a mental illness and have been sentenced to care," Ringby said. "My responsibilities are conducting cognitive therapy with patients, doing psychological testing and managing a relapse prevention program for substance abusers."
Ringby also serves as a mental-health resource for nurses and other personnel who care for patients — and she conducts risk assessments to determine the likelihood of future violence.
"There's always an element of uncertainty and you can never be completely confident you've made the correct decision when it comes to predicting human behavior," she said. Fortunately Ringby is part of a team of professionals who work together to conduct risk assessments, and it's the court system that ultimately makes decisions about patients' release.
"We always do assessments with a colleague and our work follows a standard procedure using an instrument for assessing the risk of future violence," Ringby said. "And the court reviews the material we provide before releasing patients."
Originally from Malmo, Sweden, Ringby and her husband, Per-Ole, moved to Jacksonville 15 years ago with their 6-year-old daughter, Emma. She began studying psychology at UNF purely by coincidence.
"We were a host family for another Swedish girl who came to study psychology at UNF and she stayed with us for a week," she said. "She got me interested in the subject, so I took an Intro to Psychology course to see if it was something for me. I got completely hooked."
Ringby spent the next four years working toward her B.A. in Psychology, participating in the Honors Program under the tutelage of her mentor and psychology professor, Dr. Susana Urbina.
"I have a reputation of being a very picky and tough professor because my profession requires it, so I don't agree to work with just anyone," Urbina said. "But Karolina was a very special and excellent student who I was honored to have working with me."
Under Urbina's guidance, Ringby completed her honors thesis, which the duo later presented at an American Psychiatric Association convention — quite an accomplishment for an undergrad.
Shortly after graduating from the University in May of 2000, Ringby and her family returned to Sweden, where she continued her education at Lund University and became a licensed psychologist.
"My education at UNF gave me a good theoretical base of psychological knowledge that has been of great value to me in my subsequent studies and career. My work with Dr. Urbina gave me hands-on experience and valuable knowledge for conducting research and writing my thesis in my academic career."
What Ringby enjoys most about her job is the variety, working with both individuals and groups and performing various tasks. "I work with a diversified patient group and I like to think that I am not only helping the patients but also society," she said. "The downside is the immense responsibility. It's a challenging patient group and sometimes I'm drained of all energy. At times like that, it's a blessing to have a family to hug and kiss."
Ringby's family now includes her 8-year-old son, Emil. Emma, now 21, is studying to become a veterinarian. They live just outside Malmo on a small farm with horses, hens, a goat, pig, dogs and cats.
Ringby will soon transfer to a clinic in Malmo to be closer to home. She also recently completed an advanced risk-assessment course and plans to earn a clinical degree in forensic psychiatry or neuropsychology, which will allow her to conduct more in-depth psychological testing.
Ringby said she's never been the type of person who takes the easy path when given a choice. Since her days at the University, she's always sought new challenges to keep her mind active.
"At UNF I learned that discipline, hard work, curiosity and the desire to learn could take me far," Ringby said. "I think my time at UNF boosted my confidence and it was a receipt of what I could achieve if I set my mind to it."


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Godwin: When is it time to prune?
Jason Bailey, manager of Belk of Kinston, presents a donation to Lenoir/Greene United Way. Accepting the gift is June Cummings, Executive Director.
The 2013 Board of Directors of Lenoir/Greene United Way recently held its annual meeting. Pictured are (front row) Carol Sykes, Lisa Wallace, Caroline Roberts, Ann Cherry, Dolph Mintz, Don Davenport, Jim Bailey, and (second row) James Fulghum, Lee Percise, Carolyn Anderson, Bill Wells, Kevin Zoltek, Jimmy Smith, Paul Chused, and Keith Montgomery.
When is it time to prune?
When is the best time to prune? Callers to the extension office are asking this question. The frequent response by the horticulture agent is that late winter or early spring pruning is usually best. Just why is it not a good idea to prune in the fall?
Several research projects give specific examples of good timing for pruning. A study was conducted at Auburn University in 2002 and was reported on by Warr, Keever, Findley and Kessler. They found that 'Royal Red' butterfly bush pruned before fully dormant in the fall increased the chance for winter injury resulting in death. They concluded that late winter or early spring pruning decreased the chance of cold injury.
Research conducted at Griffin, Georgia indicated that pruning �Natchez� crape myrtle from October through December resulted in a 5 to 6 degree reduction in cold hardiness compared to pruning in January to February. In 1993, Hayes and his collaborators recommended pruning crape myrtles in late winter to early spring.
Fall to mid-winter pruning may increase the potential for decay as compared with waiting until late winter. Dujesiefken and Stobbe have reported that the season does influence the wound reactions of trees. Affected is the callus formation at the edge of the wound as well as the dieback of the live wood and the availability of stored material.
Here are a few more tips for pruning crape myrtle. Pruning is easier in the dormant season when branch structure is apparent. Waiting until the end of February or early March is best for the trees. Frequent hard pruning spoils the aesthetic branch arrangement that is enjoyed during winter. Crape myrtle flowers are formed with new growth and tip pruning does encourage the formation of new flowers. To minimize winter injury do not apply fertilizer after July.
Spring flowering shrubs and hydrangeas are better pruned on a different schedule or the gardener will miss the flowers for a season.
Peg Godwin is horticulture agent, Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Center. Reach her at email@example.com or 252-527-2191.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Exploring Problem Solving
|Introduction | Cuisenaire Rod Patterns | Reflection Questions | Your Journal
To add context to the exploration you've just completed, we'd like to offer two additional points.
The first is that problem solving, like all the Process Standards, does not occur in vacuum. A rich problem calls on communication, reasoning and proof, connections, and perhaps most critically on representations -- both our ability to interpret them and to create them. As good practices are established with respect to these other standards, improvements will occur in problem solving.
The second point is a self-reflective one. Now that you have worked on the Rods problem, can you recall what it was like not to know the answer and a solution method? When we have established a method for solving a problem, we may forget the open-ended feeling we had when we first approached it. A way of understanding this may be trying to recall what it's like not to be able to do some everyday task, such as reading or riding a bicycle. Once an effective method is learned, it may squeeze out or block the recollection of the challenge of the task.
For people who are not teachers, this may be no great hardship. Effective approaches are established and can be relied on. But for mathematics teachers, particularly during problem solving, this "blocking" effect is not helpful. To be effective in the classroom, you must be aware of your own practices in the context of the content you teach, but you must also be able to understand and guide students who have neither these practices nor this content, and whose approaches, correct and incorrect, will differ from yours.
Now we'd like you to write about your own classroom practice. As you make your journal entries, keep in mind the material you've just worked on as context.
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Tech firms promise EU they might cut electricity use
16 new signatories. Well, 12. Or maybe 10 or less
The EU claimed it had strong-armed another 16 ICT firms into putting their names to an effort to reduce electricity consumption in their broadband kit and datacentres.
Brussels has declared that the firms' commitment could lead them to reduce their leccy consumption by as much as 50 per cent, should they subsequently not ignore what is an entirely voluntary agreement.
Actually, we're not talking about 16 more companies, as some of the same names appear to be listed as new signees for both the data centre and broadband servies, eg Turk Telecom, Telefonica, Belgacom and France Orange Telecom. Others, such as TDC services and telecom Italia, had already signed up for the broadband program and have now added their names to the datacentre program. We'd cut the list of new signers down to nine before we gave up.
Still, we shouldn't let a little fudging of the numbers get in the way of the real point of the announcement - showing that Brussels and European companies are doing something, even if it's something they were already doing.
European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes said: "Implementing these two codes of conduct will significantly reduce the EU's electricity consumption and could save €4.5bn per year. I welcome this work towards a more sustainable future."
The EU notes that ICT kit and services account for over eight per cent of the electricity consumed in the EU, and produce four per cent of its CO2 emissions - figures that could double by 2020.
Broadband kit accounts for 15 per cent of the ICT sector's consumption, a figure that spans kit from modems and home gateways up to routers and switches. Data centres account for 18 per cent. Under the EU's definition, data centres include "all buildings and facilities which contain enterprise servers and related server communication equipment to provide some form of data service". It is not clear whether putting your web server into your garden shed makes said structure a data centre.
Either way, we're talking about two sectors that together account for 33 per cent of total ICT leccy consumption. And we're talking about 16 - or actually 12, or maybe 10 - more large companies joining 32 other large companies, which presumably see some benefit in playing along with the Eurocrats.
There's no word on how to tackle the hundreds of thousands of companies and individuals running the majority of kit out there - some of it no doubt older than some of the bright young things who put this agreement together.
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Dr. Jerold Gruebel, (B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is president and CEO of Network Knowledge, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Springfield, Illinois, and is the community licensee of public television stations WSEC/PBS Jacksonville/Springfield, WQEC/PBS Quincy and WMEC/PBS Macomb.
Dr. Gruebel was the President of the Illinois Public Broadcasting Cooperative (PBCI), an organization established to obtain statewide underwriting in support of Illinois public broadcasting. Prior to founding Network Knowledge, Dr. Gruebel was assistant director of IHETS (the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System), a statewide network of video, voice and data networks connecting some 150 sites, including all 77 of Indiana's colleges and universities, with headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dr. Gruebel has published articles and book reviews, and he has served on the faculties of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Ohio State University, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and the University of Illinois at Springfield. He serves on the board of directors of Chaddock School in Quincy, Illinois; the board of trustees of Downtown Springfield, Inc. (DSI); and the board of directors of the Springfield Rotary Downtown Club. He has been on the board of directors of the Chatham Area Chamber of Commerce and the United Way.
He has two grown daughters, one in Washington, DC and one in Durham, N.C., and three granddaughters & one grandson. His wife is a retired second grade teacher.


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Let us say right now that he have an extreme psychological aversion to golf. This may have something to do with ex-girlfriends and/or fianc s. It may have something to do to our aversion to shirts with collars that do not button all the way down the front. It most definitely does have something to do with the fact that in our experience, people who golf have generally proven themselves untrustworthy to us, and in a few instances have pulled seriously dishonest maneuvers.
Yes, this is a generalization, but we are largely suspect when we meet anyone with anything more than a passing affinity for the game. Essentially, and we will come right out and say this, we believe golf is a sport for assholes. Then again, car companies are filled with such people, so it's no surprise that upper management at the automakers has generally rooted for golf-oriented ad campaigns. Sweet Peet D. digs back into the archives, pulls a Clarissa, and explains it all.
Car Companies And The Dreaded "White Ball" Affliction [Autoextremist]
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The crash happened when the Macau-bound ferry -- reported to be a jetfoil boat -- was approaching the port at around 9.30 am (0130 GMT) and hit a concrete breakwater, a spokesman for Macau's marine department said.
The authorities earlier said around 20 people were injured but later put the figure at 57.
"The vessel was carrying a total of 220 passengers and 13 crew members. Fifty-seven passengers have suffered minor injuries, including two Koreans and one Japanese," a spokeswoman for Shun Tak, which operates the ferry services, said in a statement.
Passenger ferries regularly cover the hour-long distance between Hong Kong and Macau.
Local broadcaster RTHK said the ferry involved was a jetfoil and the cause of accident was yet to be determined.
It is the third accident on the Hong Kong to Macau ferry route in the past eight months.
In November, a high-speed ferry travelling from Hong Kong to Macau hit an "unidentified object" near one of Hong Kong's small outlying islands, injuring 87 people.
And last month a Hong Kong-bound Macau ferry collided with a mainland Chinese vessel, leaving 33 injured.
Fears over maritime safety in Hong Kong were sparked after a fatal collision between a passenger ferry and a pleasure boat carrying around 120 people claimed 39 lives in October 2012.
The accident was the city's worst boating disaster in decades and shocked the Asian financial hub, which prides itself on its good safety record.
An inquiry into the crash found a "litany of errors" and "systematic failings" in the marine department's safety standards.
Fatal boat accidents are rare in Hong Kong despite its crowded waters, which often see high-speed hydrofoils vying for space with tourist junks, luxury yachts and a century-old public ferry system.


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The Inner Ring
Standing before the student body of King's College, University of London, in 1944, C.S. Lewis delivered one of his most profound speeches. Intent on calling his listeners to give serious consideration to the dangers of what he labeled "The …Read More
An Appetizer for the Feast
Go ahead. Ask me what would make me happiest if I had a totally free day. I'd tell you that during such a dream day I'd be by myself, probably with a book. Right at the front of …Read More
Band of Brothers
Real men don't eat quiche, and real men don't do church. For a variety of cultural and sociological reasons, it has become an accepted fact that the majority of people in most churches are women. It is now …Read More
The Bonds of Brotherhood
Fraternity … what does this word mean? It can refer to several distinct types of associations or relationships, and the church can learn valuable lessons by exploring these in more depth. The term fraternity may prompt us to recall the motto …Read More
The Church Gathered
In ancient Athens, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher of the fourth century BC, wrote about a custom in which, at age eighteen, young men submitted to an examination by fellow citizens and subsequently started physical and military training. Three fathers from …Read More
A Generation of Heroes
Satan watches for those vessels that sail without a convoy," wrote Puritan pastor George Swinnock (1627–1673). Every individual knows he was created for community. Isolation is the Devil's playground, and our Enemy is on the lookout for the Christian …Read More
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Yesterday I was in California once, Georgia once, Tennessee three times, and Virginia three times. It was a long day but not an unusual one. The great historian Paul Johnson, in his book Birth of the Modern, devotes a rather …Read More


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Funding: Work supported by DFG through CRC 634 and by the BMBF under 06 DA 9024 I
Triggered by the need to control the superconducting cavities of the S-DALINAC, the development of a digital low level RF control system was started several years ago. The chosen design proved to be very flexible since other frequencies than the original 3 GHz may be adapted easily: The system converts the RF signal coming from the cavity (e. g. 3 GHz) down to the base band using a hardware I/Q demodulator. The base band signals are digitized by ADCs and fed into a FPGA where the control algorithm is implemented. The resulting signals are I/Q modulated before they are sent back to the cavity. Meanwhile, this system has been successfully operated on 3 GHz, 6 GHz and 325 MHz cavities, on normal and superconducting cavities as well as in cw or pulsed mode. This contribution will focus on the 325 MHz version built to control a pulsed prototype test stand for the p-LINAC at FAIR and possible extensions to even lower frequencies. We will present the architecture of the RF control system as well as results obtained during operation.