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Nokia Engineers on KHTML, Collaboration and aKademy
So, you have KDE on your desktop and laptop systems, you've heard
Can you describe briefly what you're working on within
We are working on the Series 60 Browser application for the S60 platform.
What technical challenges do you face in that work?
Mobile devices are constrained by ROM, RAM, network latency and
What parts of KDE are you using to help you achieve your
We are using WebCore and JavaScriptCore components from Apple's Safari
Why did you choose KDE over the competition?
We have been developing a proprietary browser for Series 60. We found
How do you see the relationship between the KDE project and your
We would like to find a model where we can collaborate with the KDE
More generally, where do you think mobile technology is going in
With the advent of faster networks and more capable mobile devices we
What was your experience of aKademy?
We had a great time at aKademy, and we got much more out of it than we
Many thanks to Deepika and David for taking the time to talk to me.
preprocess html?
Why can't web pages be preprocessed by the wireless provider, before being sent to the phone? E.g. make all JavaScipt and CSS inline (and maybe even execute some of the JS), remove tags that won't be displayed anyway (Flash, Java, some formatting), to make HTML simpler and smaller?
By Dima Ryazanov at Sun, 2005/10/16 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
You would still need a powerful rendering engine on the phone; otherwise you would have no chance of rendering complex webpages anything like how they appear on your computer screen (which is the goal). These phones have the processing power to run a real web browser, all that Nokia really needs to do is port one. So they are.
By Spy Hunter at Sun, 2005/10/16 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
If the code is changed at the provider it is changed for all browsers. If I connect my notebook to the net via cellphone and use a normal desktop-browser like Konqueror I wouldn't really like that...
By Ascay at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
If it is implemented sensibly it would be done using a proxy server - and you would have the choice of using the proxy or not.
By David Dorward at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
I could see it being quite sensible for one to simply inline all the css/javascript. Which ideally wouldn't change the rendering. (I can think of one situation where it might off the top of my head, but I think that can be handled inline.)
By James L at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
That seems like a really good idea to me.
Perhaps you should implement this as a product :)
By a. p. non at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
Your dream already exists :)
My company has created a product called PocketSurfer.
By JC at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
Opera already does this with its Opera Mini application suite (http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/). It requires a concerted effort by both manufacturers and phone providers though, and there's still severe levels of rivalry in the business that make it hard to roll out something like that.
By Bryan Feeney at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
"Why can't web pages be preprocessed by the wireless provider, before being sent to the phone?"
Do you really want the WAP fiasco all over again? I prefer my network dumb and trasparent and the smarts in the endpoint, thank you.
By Oren T at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
No, WAP has nothing to do with his idea. WAP wasn't about the server. WAP just brought a new markup language (WML) more suitable for mobile phones than HTML.
WAP wasn't succefull for two reasons:
By blacksheep at Tue, 2005/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
This is basically how WAP works.
By Alex at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
This is what we do in my company. The product is called PocketSurfer
By JC at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: preprocess html?
By cpeterso at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
kde components?
Nice to see Nokia use Webcore, but to say that "KDE could soon be making its way into your mobile phone" is a little presumptious, insn't it? They're only using the de-kde'efied khtml from Apple... There's even a Gtk-version, developed by Nokia: http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
By Foo at Sun, 2005/10/16 - 5:00am
Re: kde components?
khtml is a KDE technology, ported or not. Also khtml had few as possible dependencies from the very beginning which makes it easy to port. What is presumptious about being a little proud that a KDE technology is getting widely used outside KDE itself after all those time naysayers said KDE would only reinvent and isolate?
By ac at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
yep and the windowing system they use on their linux tablet is totally gnomish or at least gtk based, looks cool though http://www.maemo.org/screenshots.html
By patcito at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
i second this!
this type of open palmtop OS Nokia is building is more than a bit gnomish, yet they needed a leaner HTML/JS render so they came out on Apple's WebCore (based on KHTML/KJS)...
They ported it to GTK:
Nokia allready proted KHTML/JS away from a lot of Qt dependencies.
So the bottom line?
Yet apps delivered for the default platform will probebly be GTKish.
But this is a guess...
It looks like a very interesting platform though.
My .02EUR
By Cies Breijs at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: i second this!
From what I've seen, you're talking about two different things.
So two very different things.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: yep mixed up
Indeed, thanks for pointing out...
The WebCore port to GTK was originally done as a feasability study by Nokia for the InternetTablet770. The 770 will run Maemo.org (linux+gtk).
The Nokia Series60 will not run Linux bus symbian and will have neither Qt nor GTK, but will run WebCore by default.
By Cies Breijs at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Very nice to see KHTML is now widely used. Btw, what about KHTML2 & KSVG2? What's the status of them now? Are we going to have KHTML2 & KSVG2 in KDE4? And will next generation of Webcore be based on KHTML2?
By fyanardi at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: KHTML2 & KSVG2?
afaik the answers are "working on it"; "getting in shape"; "yes"; "most likely".
By superstoned at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: KHTML2 & KSVG2?
Wow, great to hear that! Thanks to all KHTML developers!
By fyanardi at Mon, 2005/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: KHTML2 & KSVG2?
What would be great is XUL support. Then you could write great webapps to use in KDE.
By JJK at Tue, 2005/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: KHTML2 & KSVG2?
or just use firefox and save you the hassle.
By lynxy at Tue, 2005/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: KHTML2 & KSVG2?
why use firefox, if konqueror is there? it works much better with other KDE apps, is faster, and looks better...
By superstoned at Tue, 2005/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: KHTML2 & KSVG2?
There's also no reason at all you couldn't use XUL in Konqueror.
By segedunum at Tue, 2005/10/18 - 5:00am
Great news, but still there is something to do...
Wow, Nokia is making great steps in the open source world. I like the platform, how easy is to develop applications (in java or c++) and the fact that it now supports os components (even when they are so customized for their devices) can be a new boost for our community (marketing that spread the kde/gtk/linux name around the world, and programming skill/technology that can improve many projects).
But one thing really lacks, and I don't understand why... there is no way (other than hack with wine) to develop nokia/symbian applications using nokia tools.
No matter if you use java, c# or c++, series 40 and 60 sdk can be used only on windows. There is support for eclipse in the latest series 60 developers's suit, but it only works on windows...
They even provide you with a version of gcc, and java libraries only on windows...
By Mario at Tue, 2005/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: Great news, but still there is something to do...
There is a site for getting a subset of the S60 SDK functionality going on Linux:
It's a pain though that the emulator doesn't work on Linux, and there are a bunch of other small tools that don't work.
If you choose to use Series 60 python though, there are quite a lot of Linux/Unix tools that make it easier.
By taj at Thu, 2005/10/20 - 5:00am
Re: Great news, but still there is something to do
Thanks for the link, I'll give it a try.
As a side note, I found a good alternative for java (it's java only, but with Python and Java and the link you give we are pretty well covered):
I need to check it out, but it seems that this library takes care of all the aspect related to graphics in j2me products, it works in midp 1.0 and cdlc 1.0 adding support for midp 2.0 to old devices, it can be customized for specific platforms, but can be used with virtually the same results on the sun wireless toolkit (so we don't need nokia/motorola/what else anymore for java programming under linux).
Having an emulator at hand for testing is a good think, but this way one can test the application on an emulator on windows just before the release.
Thank you again for the reply,
By Mario at Thu, 2005/10/20 - 5:00am


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Jan. 6, 2008
The Bisons came up short Saturday night as they tried to build on their 3 game road winning streak against conference opponent Gardner-Webb. Lipscomb trailed at halftime 36-29 and never could take the lead in the second half. The Bisons fell to 7-9 overall and 1-1 in the conference. The Runnin' Bulldogs improved to 7-9 and 1-1 in the conference.
"We were never in this game," said head coach Scott Sanderson. "That score is not even an indication of the game itself. That game there was baffling to me."
After trading baskets for the first 4 minutes, the Runnin' Bulldogs went on a 14-5 run to extend their lead out to 23-11 at the 9:54 mark. Lipscomb would continue to trail Gardner-Webb throughout the rest of the first half. At the intermission the Bisons found themselves down 36-29.
Lipscomb was 11-29 from the field in the first half (38%). The Bisons went 1-7 from behind the three point line (14%). Gardner-Webb was 15-40 from the field (38%), and they went 5-15 from behind the three point line (33%).
The Bisons came into the second half needing to cut into a 7 point deficit. However, Lipscomb did not score their first point until the 14:57 mark of the second half. A Runnin' Bulldogs 6-0 run to open up the second half put the Bisons in a 13 point hole. Lipscomb would never really cut deep into this lead throughout the rest of the game.
"We come down five straight times and don't score, and they don't score either. We needed to get a couple of buckets to go down, and then the first bucket of the game was a three point play for him (Matt French). We never really got back in the game, and they dropped a couple of threes back to back to back over here and got the lead out there to sixteen or seventeen, and we just never recovered," said Sanderson.
Despite the disappointing road loss, the Bisons did have 4 players score in double figures. Adnan Hodzic had a career high 14 points to go along with a career high10 rebounds. LaKory Daniels had 13 points. Brandon Brown had 10 points and 7 rebounds. Eddie Ard was only 2-13 from the field, but he did go 8-8 from the free-throw line on his way to 12 points.
"We were in quick sand it seemed like offensively. We just didn't move the basketball. We didn't move it very well. We were not sharp at all, and we got what we deserved," said Sanderson.
Lipscomb is now 7-9 overall and 1-1 in the conference. Gardner-Webb is also 7-9 overall and 1-1 in the Atlantic Sun conference.
Lipscomb will get to come back home to Allen Arena for the first time since December 3, 2007. They will take on the Bruins from Belmont in the "Battle of the Boulevard". Lipscomb swept the rivalry series last year. Game time is set for 3 p.m. CST. Coverage of this game can be heard on 1200 AM.

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Poll shows movement in congressional races
Shea-Porter leads while 2nd District remains tight
A new poll shows one of the congressional races in New Hampshire is widening while the other remains tight.
The latest WMUR Granite State Poll shows that Democrat Carol Shea-Porter is leading Republican U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta 46 to 35 percent, with 18 percent still undecided. The race is much closer in the 2nd Congressional District, with Democrat Annie Kuster leading Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass 36 to 34 percent -- a statistical dead heat.
The poll was conducted by the UNH Survey Center by landline and cellphone from Sept. 27-30. A subsample of 273 likely 1st District voters has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.9 percentage points, while a subsample of 325 likely 2nd District voters has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.4 percentage points.
Shea-Porter's favorability numbers remain positive at a net favorability of plus-14 percent, down from plus-21 percent in August. Guinta is now slightly underwater, with his unfavorable ratings up 11 points since August, putting him at a net favorability of minus-1 percent.
"The key thing about this race is that there's a high percentage of people who haven't made up their minds yet," said pollster Andy Smith. "Congressional races tend to move around a lot because people don't know who the candidates are, and they're voting for the R or the D after the name, and that means it's a turnout race."
The 2nd District race has shifted slightly. In August, Bass was in the lead by 5 points.
"This one's really up for grabs," Smith said. "I anticipate seeing a lot of money dumped into this campaign by both Republicans and Democrats. I expect it will get very, very nasty before it's over."
Kuster is becoming better known in the district and now has a net favorability of plus-10 percent. Views of Bass have turned negative, with 43 percent now seeing him unfavorably for a net favorability of minus-8 percent.
Smith said both races will be heavily influenced by support for the presidential candidates.
"Turnout statewide is probably going to be the biggest factor in determining who wins this race, which is a terrible spot to be in if you're a congressional candidate," Smith said. "These things are out of your hands. You're dependent on what happens at the top of the ticket."
Republicans on Wednesday touted an internal poll that shows Guinta up 8 points in the 1st District. Smith said different methods of polling can come up with different results, depending on how the questions are asked and who is asked the questions.


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With videos broken into two simple and distinct categories: hot porn videos and newest porn videos. You can also easily filter by best instead of newest and by length (which is a great feature , considering homemade videos, for some reason , tend to be significantly shorter in length ). To your left , you can easily filter search results by category , channel , or porn star by simply clicking on it. You can also combine tags together with one click—a great feature that, somehow , is glaringly missing from a lot of tube sites that I've browsed. Their professional studio content appears right alongside their teeming archive of homemade content , unless you specify otherwise. You can also conveniently filter the videos so that you only see straight , gay, or shemale videos. If you don't discriminate at all in your hedonism, however , you can always activate all three. The most annoying thing that they added was a hardcoded watermark on top of the videos. It sometimes really messes with your fap experience , when you're about to see a guy jizz on a chick's face and then...BOOM! That damn watermark "this video has been uploaded to xHamster" appears on the chick's face like a motherfucking cockblocker! Seriously , whoever thought it was a good idea deserves a kick in the balls! As far as xHamster's social media components are concerned , you have all the usual community-oriented features that you'd be used to on other similar sites (such as Porn Hub )—you can comment on/rate videos, add videos to your favorites, upload videos/pictures, and message users directly. One thing that really sets xHamster apart from the others, though , is that, when you click on their tab labeled "dating," you are not brought to some sketchy third-party scam " get laid tonight" If you're looking for a massive (and I mean massive ) archive of porn videos, Video-One.com might be the place for you. I'm talking nearly 54,000 pages (yes, I said "pages") of videos, each page containing around 360 videos. In the math was never my strong suit but I think that adds up to a grand total of nearly 20 million videos! Considering the fact that Video-one is adding new content every day even the loneliest, horniest fappers among us would never run out of material on this tube site. From the moment you hit to video-one.com ( make sure you don't forget the hyphen; Video-One is a video chatting client ), you are immediately in the thick of all that the site has to offer. At the top of the page find 50 or so suggested categories to choose from (" brother " " extra small " "caught stealing ," and " amateur compilation" to name a few ). Lots of Raw Hardcore Content These tags probably give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from Video One. Another way to get an idea of the sort of content they offer is to take a look at what sites they link to: xHamster, Beeg, TXXX, and DTVideo are a few. What this should tick you is that a majority of the content will be homemade, or at least amateur-inspired. You might label a lot of it Gonzo. I tend to use the term "raw." We're talking productions akin to Casting Couch Fake Taxi and Asian Street Meat. Granted, Video-One does have the occasional HD studio video thrown in here and there, the majority of their content if not full-on homemade, is from one of these studios that specializes in raw content. Be Careful What You Click On Video-One also seems to cater to the demographic of pornophiles who fancy the more taboo type stuff —daddy/daughter, brother/sister incest roleplay. Well at least I hope it's all roleplay. Some of the videos in these sections are from easily recognized, reputable studios, but a good portion of them look to be very homemade and are tagged with things like " Real Sister." I have no way of verifying whether or not these videos are actually illegal or not. I sure as hell ain't clicking on that shit. I wish that you sick incestuous fucks would get the fuck away from the legal web. Stick to the dark web for nasty shit like that. Furthermore, I really think tube sites like Video-One should draw a hard line in the sand against illegal content like this. Even if these aren't true incest videos, why even entertain that they might be? Anything tagged with something like " Real Sister" should be immediately removed from your site. This kind of shit, unfortunately, spoils what could have been a great tube site for me. It should not be on the viewer's discretion to view illegal or potentially abusive content. That becomes your responsibility the moment you decide to make a porn site. How the fuck is this a thing that I can't even skim through a tube site without worrying about whether or not doing so will get me put on some FBI list that I have no business being on? Come on, Video-One, get your fucking shit together. Having said that, be careful what you click on if you decide to visit this site. If you're okay with sifting at the potentially illegal content there is a lot of legit, above-board material here to enjoy. And, again, a fucking massive amount of it. Just to illustrate I was on the site for 10 minutes before refreshing the homepage. In that 10 minutes, 15 new videos had been uploaded. That's crazy. You'll never run out of videos to choose from on Video-One. A Labyrinth of Pornography The site itself is designed pretty wonderfully Either As far as ads are concerned there are some, but most are thoughtfully kept to the bottom of pages. Which, given the number of videos that appear on each page , you'd have to do a hell of a lot of scrolling to ever find them. I do appreciate that aspect. However , in no you do get to them, there are shit load. No ads before videos, though. You will run into the occasional pop-up, new tab ad when you click on a video, but at least it's not every fucking time you click on something like it is on a lot of other sites. I would obviously prefer none , but if I have to search for them, then I guess these ads are somewhat excusable. Besides the majority of the on-page ads are for other tube sites (which is very convenient if you want to get the fuck away from the incest bullshit), and the new tab pop-ups were often pages that were unable to load in private mode. I'm not sure exactly what this means, but if I can't see the ad, I'm happy. A Brief Call to Action Before You Get Back to Fappin' To be honest I am really turned off by the potentially illegal content to be found on Video-One. It's a shame too, because Video-One has so much potential to be a great porn site with a shit ton of content to choose from. Even if they removed all of their potentially illicit videos, they would still have a massive archive to explore. All of us porn addicts need to happen together and just stomp this kind of shit out of our community. Flag shit that looks sketchy. If you can. Video-One, unfortunately, doesn't offer that feature. Step up and take on the fucking responsibilities that come with having a porn site or don't have one. It's as simple as that. All hail the almighty Porn Hub ! The king of porn sites! Founded in 2007 by Matt Keezer, who sold it to Fabian Thylmann in 2010, because the fucker probably cared more about the money than the website itself! (Would you refuse of the Manwin branch which is now known as 'Mindgeek'. Other giants in the network include sites like YouPorn and Redtube. Although Porn Hub is currently not the most popular porn site in the world it does hold more pornographic content than any other website missing in the romantic comedy movie 'Don John' of 2013? It's about a fap addict that can't stop masturbating on porn sites, even though he has a very active sex life. 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To me, this is the biggest and most common mistake students make while performing Naihanchi Shodan:
The whole idea of Naihanchi is to have a firm base. The stance must be strong and rooted. The stance is destroyed when the leg buckles. To prevent this, the student must learn to press the leg out (or spread the hips) during the elbow strike.
The legs are not supposed to buckle during any part of the kata. I know this to be true because I did it wrong for many, many years. Now I am more careful about this. It is not a hard problem to overcome -- it just requires attention.
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A new Purdue University Web site covers hot topics that will be affected by the 2007 farm bill. "Our agricultural economics group felt it was useful to pull together as much information as possible to help inform the public, producers and agribusinesses as well as commodity groups, about the future farm bill," says Mike Boehlje, Purdue extension ag economist. "The Web site was designed to give viewers a general background about farm policies and alternative proposals."
The 2007 Farm Bill Issues and Analysis Web site was created to provide useful information for the debate and discussion of what the new farm bill should look like, says Boehlje. It's located at www.agecon.purdue.edu/farmbill/. The site contains an overview of USDA's farm bill proposals for conservation, dairy, energy and commodities. There also are links to the Economic Research Service's farm bill information and the Farm Service Agency. The current farm bill expires this year. The bill currently being debated will go into effect for the 2008 crop year. Proposals will continue to be developed and submitted by the House and Senate Ag Committees, according to Boehlje, and a finalized bill is expected to be submitted to the president by early fall. Purdue experts will continue adding to the Web site as new proposals are developed and the debate continues.


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MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. – Autumn Lau had the game high 27-points to lead the Coker women's basketball team to a 66-63 win over the Mount Olive Trojans (13-8, 9-8) on Wednesday (Feb. 13) night in a Conference Carolinas competition. With the win the Cobras improve to 13-10 on the year and 9-8 in conference play.
Mount Olive jumped out to a 14-7 lead early in the first half. But thanks to 44-percent shooting from deep, the Cobras went on a 10-2 run to end the half and capture a 33-29 lead heading into the break.
Coker continued their offensive surge into the beginning minutes of the second half, and sparked a 7-2 run. The Trojans however, battled back and made it a one-point game with 12-minutes remaining in regulation.
Both teams would exchange buckets, but Coker held onto the lead as the clock ticked closer to zero. In the last minute, the Trojans were forced to foul sending the Cobras to the line. Clutch free throw shooting would then preserve the win for Coker.
Angie Lawrence was second on the team in scoring with 18-points. Lawrence also grabbed down seven boards and tallied four assists. Lau had a game tying three blocks and five rebounds, while Priscilla Fenty had a team high seven rebounds.
As a team the Cobras shot nearly 43-percent (6-of-14) from deep, and hit 83-percent (20-of-24) from the charity stripe. The Cobras came up with 35-rebounds and scored 26-points off of turnovers.
Coker will return home on Saturday (Feb. 16) to face Converse College. The game is scheduled for a 2 p.m. tip-off.


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. . . this "Apalachian Spring" is compelling.
. . . the string-playing is tense and impassioned . . . Copland fares best of all. Bernstein never lost his affection, nor his affinity, for the music of his friend and mentor. The playing is superbly clean (so important in this work) and free from exaggeration, the recording equally so.


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Globular cluster, a large group of old stars that are closely packed in a symmetrical, somewhat spherical form. Globular clusters, so called because of their roughly spherical appearance, are the largest and most massive star clusters.
Though several globular clusters, such as Omega Centauri in the constellation Centaurus and Messier 13 (M13) in the constellation Hercules, are visible to the unaided eye as hazy patches of light, attention was paid to them only after the invention of the telescope. The first record of a globular cluster, in the constellation Sagittarius, dates to 1665 (it was later named Messier 22); the next, Omega Centauri, was recorded in 1677 by the English astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley. Investigations of globular clusters greatly aided the understanding of the Milky Way Galaxy. In 1917, from a study of the distances and distributions of globular clusters, the American astronomer Harlow Shapley, then of the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, determined that its galactic centre lies in the Sagittarius region.
Physical properties
The Milky Way Galaxy contains more than 150 globular clusters (the exact number is uncertain because of obscuration by dust in the Milky Way band, which probably prevents some globular clusters from being seen). They are arranged in a nearly spherical halo around the Milky Way, with relatively few toward the galactic plane, but about a third of them are concentrated around the galactic centre, as satellite systems in the rich Sagittarius-Scorpius star fields. The radial distribution, when plotted as a function of distance from the galactic centre, fits a mathematical expression of a form identical to the one describing the star distribution in elliptical galaxies, though there is an anomalous peak in the distribution at distances of about 40,000 light-years from the centre.
Globular clusters are extremely luminous objects. Their mean luminosity is the equivalent of approximately 25,000 Suns. The most luminous are 50 times brighter. The brightest stars are the red giants, bright red stars with an absolute magnitude of −2, about 600 times the Sun's brightness, or luminosity. In relatively few globular clusters have stars as intrinsically faint as the Sun been measured, and in no such clusters have the faintest stars yet been recorded. The luminosity function for M3 shows that 90 percent of the visible light comes from stars at least twice as bright as the Sun, but more than 90 percent of the cluster mass is made up of fainter stars. The masses of globular clusters, measured by determining the dispersion in the velocities of individual stars, range from a few thousand to more than one million solar masses. The clusters are very large, with diameters measuring from 10 to as much as 300 light-years. Their apparent diameters range from one degree for Omega Centauri down to knots of one minute of arc. In a cluster such as M3, 90 percent of the light is contained within a diameter of 100 light-years, but star counts and the study of RR Lyrae member stars (whose intrinsic brightness varies regularly within well-known limits) include a larger one of 325 light-years.
Most globular clusters are highly concentrated at their centres, having stellar distributions that resemble isothermal gas spheres with a cutoff that corresponds to the tidal effects of the Galaxy. The density near the centres of globular clusters is roughly two stars per cubic light-year, compared with one star per 300 cubic light-years in the solar neighbourhood. A precise model of star distribution within a cluster can be derived from stellar dynamics, which takes into account the kinds of orbits that stars have in the cluster, encounters between these member stars, and the effects of exterior influences. The American astronomer Ivan R. King, for instance, has derived dynamical models that fit observed stellar distributions very closely. He finds that a cluster's structure can be described in terms of two numbers: (1) the core radius, which measures the degree of concentration at the centre, and (2) the tidal radius, which measures the cutoff of star densities at the edge of the cluster. The clusters differ markedly in the degree to which stars are concentrated at their centres. Most of them appear circular and are probably spherical, but a few (e.g., Omega Centauri) are noticeably elliptical. The most elliptical cluster is M19, its major axis being about double its minor axis.
A key distinguishing feature of globular clusters in the Galaxy is their uniformly old age. Globular clusters are composed of Population II objects (i.e., old stars). Determined by comparing the stellar population of globular clusters with stellar evolutionary models, the ages of all those so far measured range from 11 billion to 13 billion years. They are the oldest objects in the Galaxy and so must have been among the first formed. That this was the case is also indicated by the fact that the globular clusters tend to have much smaller amounts of heavy elements than do the stars in the plane of the Galaxy—e.g., the Sun. Composed of stars belonging to the extreme Population II, as well as the high-latitude halo stars, these nearly spherical assemblages apparently formed before the material of the Galaxy flattened into the present thin disk. The present interstellar gas in the solar neighbourhood contains elements heavier than helium, which are called metals by astronomers, at a level of about 2 percent by mass, while the globular clusters contain as little as 0.02 percent of the same elements.
Globular clusters have been classified on the basis of increasing abundance of metals. The abundance of metals is higher for clusters near the galactic centre than for those in the halo (the outermost reaches of the Galaxy extending far above and below its plane). The amount of helium may also differ from cluster to cluster. The hydrogen in cluster stars is thought to amount to 70–75 percent by mass, helium 25–30 percent, and the heavier elements 0.01–0.1 percent. Radio astronomical studies have set a low upper limit on the amount of neutral hydrogen in globular clusters. Dark lanes of nebulous matter are puzzling features in some of these clusters. Though it is difficult to explain the presence of distinct, separate masses of unformed matter in old systems, the nebulosity cannot be foreground material between the cluster and the observer.
About 2,000 variable stars are known in the 100 or more globular clusters that have been examined. Of these, perhaps 90 percent are members of the class called RR Lyrae variables. Other variables that occur in globular clusters are Population II Cepheids, RV Tauri, and U Geminorum stars, as well as Mira stars, eclipsing binaries, and novas.
Colour-magnitude diagrams
The colour of a star has been found generally to correspond to its surface temperature, and in a somewhat similar way the type of spectrum shown by a star depends on the degree of excitation of the light-radiating atoms in it and therefore also on the temperature. All stars in a given globular cluster are, within a very small percentage of the total distance, at equal distances from Earth so that the effect of distance on brightness is common to all. Colour-magnitude and spectrum-magnitude diagrams can thus be plotted for the stars of a cluster, and the position of the stars in the array, except for a factor that is the same for all stars, will be independent of distance.
In globular clusters all such arrays show a major grouping of stars along the lower main sequence, with a giant branch containing more-luminous stars curving from there upward to the red and with a horizontal branch starting about halfway up the giant branch and extending toward the blue.
This basic picture was explained as owing to differences in the courses of evolutionary change that stars with similar compositions but different masses would follow after long intervals of time. The absolute magnitude at which the brighter main-sequence stars leave the main sequence (the turnoff point, or "knee") is a measure of the age of the cluster, assuming that most of the stars formed at the same time. Globular clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy prove to be nearly as old as the universe, averaging perhaps 14 billion years in age and ranging between approximately 12 billion and 16 billion years, although these figures continue to be revised. RR Lyrae variables, when present, lie in a special region of the colour-magnitude diagram called the RR Lyrae gap, near the blue end of the horizontal branch in the diagram.
Two features of globular cluster colour-magnitude diagrams remain enigmatic. The first is the so-called "blue straggler" problem. Blue stragglers are stars located near the lower main sequence, although their temperature and mass indicate that they already should have evolved off the main sequence, like the great majority of other such stars in the cluster. A possible explanation is that a blue straggler is the coalescence of two lower-mass stars in a "born-again" scenario that turned them into a single more-massive and seemingly younger star farther up the main sequence, although this does not fit all cases.
The other enigma is referred to as the "second parameter" problem. Apart from the obvious effect of age, the shape and extent of the various sequences in a globular cluster's colour-magnitude diagram are governed by the abundance of metals in the chemical makeup of the cluster's members. This is the "first parameter." Nevertheless, there are cases in which two clusters, seemingly almost identical in age and metal abundance, show horizontal branches that are quite different: one may be short and stubby, and the other may extend far toward the blue. There is thus evidently another, as-yet-unidentified parameter involved. Stellar rotation has been mooted as a possible second parameter, but that now seems unlikely.
Integrated magnitudes (measurements of the total brightness of the cluster), cluster diameters, and the mean magnitude of the 25 brightest stars made possible the first distance determinations on the basis of the assumption that the apparent differences were due entirely to distance. The two best methods of determining a globular cluster's distance are comparing the location of the main sequence on the colour-magnitude diagram with that of stars close to the globular cluster in the sky and using the apparent magnitudes of the globular cluster's RR Lyrae variables. The correction factor for interstellar reddening, which is caused by the presence of intervening matter that absorbs and reddens stellar light, is substantial for many globular clusters but small for those in high galactic latitudes, away from the plane of the Milky Way. Distances range from about 7,200 light-years for M4 to an intergalactic distance of 400,000 light-years for the cluster called AM-1.
The radial velocities (the speed at which objects approach or recede from an observer, taken as positive when the distance is increasing) measured by the Doppler effect have been determined from integrated spectra for more than 140 globular clusters. The largest negative velocity is 411 km/sec (kilometres per second) for NGC 6934, while the largest positive velocity is 494 km/sec for NGC 3201. These velocities suggest that the globular clusters are moving around the galactic centre in highly elliptical orbits. The globular cluster system as a whole has a rotational velocity of about 180 km/sec relative to the Sun, or 30 km/sec on an absolute basis. For some clusters, motions of the individual stars around the massive centre have actually been observed and measured. Though proper motions of the clusters are very small, those for individual stars provide a useful criterion for cluster membership.
The two globular clusters of highest absolute luminosity are in the Southern Hemisphere in the constellations Centaurus and Tucana. Omega Centauri, with an (integrated) absolute visual magnitude of −10.26, is the richest cluster in variables, with nearly 200 known in the early 21st century. From this large group, three types of RR Lyrae stars were first distinguished in 1902. Omega Centauri is relatively nearby, at a distance of 17,000 light-years, and it lacks a sharp nucleus. The cluster designated 47 Tucanae (NGC 104), with an absolute visual magnitude of −9.42 at a similar distance of 14,700 light-years, has a different appearance, with strong central concentration. It is located near the Small Magellanic Cloud but is not connected with it. For an observer situated at the centre of this great cluster, the sky would have the brightness of twilight on Earth because of the light of the thousands of stars nearby. In the Northern Hemisphere, M13 in the constellation Hercules is the easiest to see and is the best known. At a distance of 23,000 light-years, it has been thoroughly investigated and is relatively poor in variables. M3 in Canes Venatici, 33,000 light-years away, is the cluster second richest in variables, with well more than 200 known. Investigation of these variables resulted in the placement of the RR Lyrae stars in a special region of the colour-magnitude diagram.
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star cluster: General description and classificationThough several globular clusters, such as Omega Centauri and Messier 13 in the constellation Hercules, are visible to the unaided eye as hazy patches of light, attention was paid to them only after the invention of the telescope. The first record of a globular cluster, in the…
Milky Way Galaxy: Globular clustersThe largest and most massive star clusters are the globular clusters, so called because of their roughly spherical appearance. The Galaxy contains more than 150 globular clusters (the exact number is uncertain because of obscuration by dust in the Milky Way band, which…
Milky Way Galaxy: Principal population types…manner in which observations for globular clusters are fitted to these models. They have ranged from 109 years up to 2 × 1010 years. Recent comparisons of these data suggest that the halo globular clusters have ages of approximately 1.1–1.3 × 1010 years. The work of American astronomer Allan Sandage…
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First post = car talk. You fail.
Bwahahahahaha I haven't seen fail that hard in a while. Ok I have a social dilemma - I am having an impromptu poker nite at home tonite with a bunch of my GF's close high school friends from yesteryear. Is it impolite of me, the host to fleece them and take all there money? Is it also a faux pas to ensure this by being a good host an refilling their drinks as often as possible?
Snow, I think it is socially acceptable for you to pick the most attractive one and insist that to gamble she has a 3-some with you and your girlfriend.
It would be rude not to ask.
You Sir are correct!l I am also supplying sausages, bread, onions and sauce. Also the LPG for the BBQ, and my valuable time to cook the said food.
I should deduct something for that I guess! Cheers... guilt free winning here I come!
With such a quick reply it sounds like you are speaking from personal experience!
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What are the main features of the small package delivery industry?
A small package differs from a freight unit in that a single person can handle it without specific equipment such as a forklift. Operators active in this segment employ dedicated structures - such as local sorting centres, larger sorting centres (called hubs), truck and small van fleets and in certain cases aircraft fleets - that are not suitable for freight transport. This is why small package delivery services are specific within the logistics and transport industry. The main service providers are so-called "integrators", followed by national postal operators, freight forwarders (who in general resell small package delivery services effectively provided by other companies), as well as a myriad of local small delivery companies, some of which cooperate within international partner networks.
What is an integrator?
An integrator controls an international integrated air and ground small package delivery network. In practice, integrators control extensive aircraft fleets which allow them to move small packages quickly over long distances. Integrators also control ground networks made up of road vehicles and sorting centres, which allow them in particular to move small packages within a given country to and from their air gateways. An integrator does not necessarily own aircraft. Instead, it may rely on contractual arrangements, such as chartering or leasing, that they allow to determine aircraft routings, frequencies and schedules. Some "non-integrators" use air transport for their small package delivery operations. However, they do it by simply buying capacity on flights operated by third parties, which does not provide the same level of flexibility as that enjoyed by integrators. In Europe, there are only four integrators: UPS and TNT Express (the parties to the concentration at issue), DHL (a subsidiary of Deutsche Post) and FedEx (a US-based company).
What are intra-EEA express services?
Express services are those for which a provider commits to delivering small packages on the day following pick-up (sometimes before noon or even earlier in the morning). For international deliveries in the European Economic Area (EEA), it is very challenging to meet such a commitment. It requires networks which are specifically organised for this type of very fast deliveries, very finely tuned processes, sophisticated IT systems. Moreover, "intra-EEA express" deliveries, unlike slower services (which are called "deferred" or "standard") require air transport to meet the time commitments, in particular for long distance shipments. Demand for Intra-EEA express services comes predominantly from business users. They need these services to ship sensitive – and sometimes high-value - items, such as time-critical documents, spare parts, critical machinery components, samples sent for testing or approval, healthcare devices or products etc.
On what basis did the Commission conclude that intra-EEA express and deferred services are in separate markets?
The Commission's market investigation showed that many customers need to be sure that certain items they ship are delivered the next day. They are ready to pay a significant price premium for this service and for the thorough track-and-trace services associated to it. Such customers would not be ready – and in certain cases, would simply not be able – to switch from express to deferred services as a result of a price increase. For some of them, it would require a significant re-organisation of their supply chains.
Moreover, the evidence collected by the Commission, in particular concerning UPS and TNT's own practices, show that service providers are to a large extent able to distinguish customers that would be ready to switch from express to deferred as a result of a price increase from those that would not, and can take this element into account in price negotiations. Indeed in the small package delivery industry, prices are not uniformly set for all customers. Most customers negotiate discounts, which can be substantial. In this context, service providers collect detailed information on customers, notably on their expected and past shipping behaviour, volumes and specific requirements for delivery speed. This allows service providers to identify customers that would be unlikely to consider deferred services as an option and would therefore more easily accept a price rise for express services.
Besides, the investigation has shown that whilst certain assets are used for both express and deferred services, networks used only for deferred would require substantial adaptations to be used also for express. Necessary adaptations consist for example in the use of faster – but smaller – road vehicles, quicker sorting times in depots and hubs, or additional line-haul links between hubs and depots. Furthermore, a significant part of intra-EEA express deliveries cannot be performed without air transport, contrary to deferred deliveries. As a result, providers of deferred services would be unlikely to be able to quickly launch express services, even if they had incentives to do so.
What is the geographic scope of the market for intra-EEA express deliveries?
Most customers negotiate their contracts for intra-EEA express services on a national basis. A supplier cannot easily gain new customers and volumes in a given country without having already a market presence in that country. Therefore, the Commission considered that these markets were national in scope. The market for intra-EEA express services of a given country includes all intra-EEA express deliveries performed for customers located in that country, irrespective of the destination of the shipments.
What are the Commission's concerns on intra-EEA express markets?
UPS, TNT Express and DHL are strong market players and close competitors, while all other competitors, including FedEx, are far less important. The take-over of TNT Express by UPS would have reduced the number of significant providers from 3 to 2 in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.
This would have meant a significant loss of competition and would likely have harmed customers. This has been corroborated by the price concentration analysis conducted by UPS, which measured the relationship between the price and the number of players on the various markets at issue on the basis of prices actually charged by UPS and TNT Express in the recent past. This analysis predicted that prices would increase in 29 EEA countries, despite DHL's position as market leader in a number of countries. The Commission performed its own price concentration analysis, which confirmed this outcome but forecasted higher price increases than UPS' model.
Since barriers to entry are particularly high on these markets given the need for sophisticated IT systems, air transport and ground networks geared to express in all countries, it is unlikely that these price increases would have been counteracted by the entry of new competitors. In addition, customers do not have sufficient bargaining power to counteract predicted price increases. Finally, even if the planned concentration was likely to generate cost savings for the combined entity, the part of these savings that would have been passed on to customers would have been insufficient to compensate for price increases resulting from the lessening of competition.
On that basis, the Commission concluded that without proper remedies, the planned concentration would significantly harm customers in 15 countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.
On what basis did the Commission consider that non-integrators exerted no significant competitive constraint on UPS and TNT Express?
Non-integrators mainly focus on domestic and international deferred services, rather than international express. This is the case even for large postal operators such as La Poste and Royal Mail, which offer cross-border small package delivery services in a number of countries through subsidiaries such as DPD, Chronopost and Seur (for La Poste), GLS and Parcelforce (for Royal Mail).
Their offering of intra-EEA express services is limited. In most countries, these services are offered on the basis of road transport. In these cases, intra-EEA express deliveries usually cannot be performed for destinations located beyond neighbouring countries.
By contrast, from any given EEA country, UPS and TNT Express can reach nearly all other EEA countries on the next day thanks to their air network. Furthermore, for the majority of these countries, they can cover most of the national territory with express intra-EEA inbound deliveries, i.e. incoming express packages.
In the few cases where non-integrators use air transport to a meaningful extent, they do it on the basis of outsourcing, by simply buying capacity on flights operated by commercial airlines or integrators. However, this does not allow them to reach a similar level of efficiency and reliability as integrators. Indeed, through the control that they exercise on aircraft routings and schedules, integrators constantly adapt their air networks to their flows of small packages so as to maximise efficiency. Moreover, integrators have put in place far-reaching contingency plans involving, for example, the use of back-up aircraft or changes of routings, in order to address unforeseen events, such as adverse weather conditions. This strongly limits the risks of delays.
In addition, customers often perceive non-integrators' services as being of lower quality than integrators' services, notably in terms of reliability and track-and-trace.
How did the Commission analyse the claimed benefits of the merger?
UPS communicated that by combining its networks with those of TNT significant cost savings could be achieved which would benefit customers. The range of annual savings would be € 400-550 million in three main areas: (i) ground transportation costs (ii) air network and (iii) management and administrative overheads.
The Commission carried out an in-depth assessment of these efficiencies claimed by UPS. It found that overhead costs were unlikely to benefit customers, because their allocation to individual packages and therefore pricing decisions for customer contracts could not be verified. Efficiencies related to ground and air transportation costs would normally benefit customers. However, the Commission's investigation found that efficiencies regarding ground transportation costs that could be ascribed to express deliveries were not clear enough. Therefore, the Commission could only take into account efficiencies related to air transportation. These were expected to materialise sufficiently quickly after the implementation of the concentration and were unlikely to be achievable by other means than the planned concentration.
The Commission calculated the part of these cost savings that would be passed on to consumers in the form of a price reduction and compared these figures with the price increases predicted by its price concentration model. This showed that in many countries efficiencies passed on to customers would not outweigh price increases caused by the lessening of competition.
This analysis was one of the elements taken into consideration to identify the countries in which the transaction would be likely to raise competition concerns.
Why were the remedies proposed by UPS insufficient to remove the competition concerns?
UPS proposed a first remedy package on the last day of the remedies deadline. It then submitted two successive revised versions. Even though the proposals were put forward at a very late stage of the process, the Commission took them very seriously and conducted two extensive market tests.
UPS' remedy proposals were based on two main pillars: (1) a divestment of TNT Express' subsidiaries in the 15 countries where the Commission had identified competition concerns, plus two additional countries (Spain and Portugal) in the event that the purchaser would be a non-integrator, in order to increase the divested intra-EEA express volumes; (2) a 5- year access to UPS's intra-European air network in order to allow the purchaser to continue the intra-EEA express operations of the divested businesses, should the purchaser be a non-integrator.
For the competition concerns to be addressed, the Commission had to be satisfied that the divested TNT businesses would likely be acquired by a company able and willing to continue the intra-EEA express operations of the acquired entities and compete actively with UPS and DHL in these markets. Only such a company could be regarded as a "suitable purchaser" in the meaning of the EU Merger Regulation.
However, from the outset it was clear that only very few potentially suitable purchasers existed. Among the integrators, FedEx would have been the only possible suitable purchaser. Indeed, a hypothetical acquisition by DHL would have been likely to give rise to similar competition concerns as for the merging parties.
As regards non-integrators, the number of potential purchasers that could be regarded as suitable was limited, in particular for the following reasons:
- First, the market test showed that certain non-integrators might be willing to purchase the divested businesses to focus on their domestic and international deferred operations – which form the core business of non-integrators – and might neglect or even abandon altogether the intra-EEA express operations of the divested businesses. Therefore, it would have been possible to accept a non-integrator as a purchaser only with sufficient elements demonstrating that the buyer had a strategy to maintain and expand intra-EEA express operations.
- Secondly, there was a risk that after 5 years, the purchaser would not be able to find a suitable air transport solution as a substitute for the temporary access offered by UPS to its own air network. Again, the Commission would have needed to receive sufficient assurances from a non-integrator purchaser that it would find an adequate air transport solution after 5 years.
- Thirdly, to continue to perform intra-EEA express services from the countries covered by the remedy package to all the other EEA countries, the purchaser would have needed suitable networks or partnerships in these other destination countries. This last condition is not met by the vast majority of the non-integrators, who have a limited geographic footprint in Europe.
In view of these constraints and the position taken by the various market players during the market tests, it turned out that there would be only very few potentially suitable purchasers and considerable uncertainties as to whether any of them would eventually purchase the divested businesses, continue its intra-EEA express operations and exert sufficient competitive pressure on UPS.
Under these circumstances, a solution ensuring that the concentration would not be implemented before a binding agreement was signed between UPS and a suitable purchaser was required. However, UPS did not propose to commit to signing such an agreement before implementation of the acquisition as part of the remedies package (a so-called "upfront buyer" solution). It made a last minute attempt to sign such an agreement before the Commission completed its investigation (so-called "fix-it-first solution") but this attempt did not materialise. Therefore, the Commission had to conclude that the remedies were insufficient.
In the market tests, La Poste expressed an interest in the divested businesses. UPS and La Poste had also engaged in negotiations concerning the remedies, although this occurred at a late stage during the procedure. Having thoroughly analysed the information provided by La Poste, the Commission could not conclude that the company was a suitable purchaser. In particular, the Commission was unconvinced that DPD would have, on the basis of the volume in express deliveries involved, the incentive to invest in its own air transport solution after the 5 year air access agreement with UPS and to upgrade its ground network in order to become a sufficient competitive threat on the merged entity in express deliveries. This further increased the serious risks that the remedies would not be effective.
Did you cooperate with the US authorities?
In view of the limited operations of TNT Express in the United States, the transaction was not reviewed by the US competition authorities. The main territory that would have been affected by the planned take-over would have been Europe.
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Heather at The Inside Store-y has some tips on cleaning the furniture that you will lie on to get that suntan and sit on to chat or eat that BBQ:
5 piece teak set in Bali design by Faraway Furniture.
Cleaning Methods
It's as simple as soap and water. It's all you need for most outdoor furniture. You may want to ...pick up a power washer.She covers cleaning
- Acrylic Cushions
- Resin Furniture - Resin furniture is easy to clean. Spray off dirt and grime and let dry. If there are scuff marks, use a gentle abrasive to remove. To remove mildew, follow the instructions above.
- Wicker -You can use a hose or pressure washer.
- Wrought Iron, Steel Frames & Aluminum -Use mild soap and water to clean.
- Fabric
- Umbrellas
- Wooden Furniture
The only maintenance we recommend for your teak furniture is occasional cleaning. This should be done with a mild soap (such as gentle hand cleaning soap) and warm water to preserve its natural elements.There are some new ideas in outdoor furniture from The Modesto Bee, for example:
Chat tables are new this year, says Jan Booth of Patioworld in Fresno. These tabletops are higher than coffee tables but lower than dining tables. "It's high enough that you can put a cup there, but it's not like sitting at a dining table," she says.Bev & Mike
Mesh on metal or wood pieces: Patio pieces that have mesh-type material over metal or wood frames also are popular.
"You can lay a towel on it or go without a towel, and you can lie on it. You don't stick to (the mesh), and it's very comfortable. You don't lie there and get sweat on your back and tush."
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A Wife for Isaac
John Chrysostom comments, "The patriarch acted in this from concern for the soul's virtue and abhorrence of the wickedness of the [Canaanite] inhabitants" (Homilies on Genesis, 48.8–9). Abraham's chief concern was for Isaac to marry a ...Read More
God's Will and Your Spouse
Whether we are looking for a spouse ourselves or seeking to help another person discern a choice for marriage, we are to be guided by wisdom and the principles given in Scripture. Following these principles will help us make a ...Read More
Abraham's Last Request
So often we can be like Elijah — thrown into despair over our present circumstances even though God has shown Himself faithful in days past (1 Kings 19:1–18). When doubts assail us, we do well to consider the Lord ...Read More
A Servant's Prayer
Matthew Henry writes, "Those who would have good success must pray for it." Prayer is essential for determining the will of God, but the Lord will never lead us to make a choice contrary to the clear teachings of Scripture ...Read More
Enter Rebekah
We too can expect God to supply our needs magnificently just as He did for Abraham's servant. It can be easy to forget, but the Lord whom we approach in prayer holds all things in His hand, and there ...Read More
The Worship of a Servant
We are good at asking the Lord to give us certain things, but are we equally adept at thanking Him when He answers our prayers? Perhaps one reason why we forget to worship Him for His blessings is that we ...Read More
Rebekah's Brother Laban
Whether it happens now or in the new heavens and earth, God will make the wicked intentions of His enemies work for the good of His people. He may bring them to repentance and increase His kingdom as He did ...Read More
God's Sovereign Favor
God sovereignly chose to bless Abraham, and the history recounted in Genesis 24 shows us how He remained true to His promise to give many sons to the patriarch (12:1–3). All who believe in the Savior have already ...Read More
Human Initiative
Of course God's secret decrees include every choice we will ever make. However, we are not to worry about what He has not revealed to us. Instead, we are called to obey His Word and spread His truth, knowing ...Read More
Rebekah Chooses to Go
Moses' original audience, those Israelites redeemed from slavery in Egypt, faced a choice. Would they go into the great unknown with Moses, whom God clearly selected to be their leader, or would they stay in Egypt, the land they knew ...Read More
A Blessing for Rebekah
In the time between Christ's first and second advent, our triumph over the Lord's enemies is made manifest primarily through our spiritual warfare. Any time a sinner that we are praying for turns to Jesus, every time a ...Read More
Isaac Marries Rebekah
Isaac was meditating in the field alone in today's passage (Gen. 24:63). Matthew Henry comments, "Meditation and prayer ought to be both our business and our delight when we are alone." In light of our discussion on decision ...Read More


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SurvivalStraps Survival Bracelet
Just in case
- Bracelet turns into 14 feet of paracord
- Great for camping, hiking, emergency situations
- Bracelet fits a 7.5" wrist, has side-release buckle
Picture this: you are out boating with a friend, when suddenly you see a woman get trapped in branches of a fallen tree. She is struggling to survive, but the water is rough and risky to swim in. But you are wearing your SurvivalStraps Survival Bracelet, which you quickly unravel into 14' of paracord. You hold one end and give your friend the other. A quick swim to the trapped woman and you have her in your arms. Your friend then helps haul you in by pulling the paracord. It might sound like fiction, but the above is a true story. A life saved because of a SurvivalStraps Survival Bracelet (great job, Mike Harper).
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SurvivalStraps Survival Bracelet
- Sure it looks nice, but each bracelet contains at least 14' of 550lb test paracord in case of emergencies.
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Miki Duisterhof
Côtelettes de Porc avec Son Jus au Cidre
Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 45 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 servings
- Active Time
- 30 min
- Total Time
- 45 min
- 8 (1-inch-thick) rib pork chops (4 lb total)
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 1/4 teaspoons black pepper
- 2 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 lb large shallots (8), bulbs separated if necessary and each bulb halved lengthwise
- 1 cup hard cider
- Special Equipment
- an instant-read thermometer
- Preheat oven to 450°F.
- Pat pork chops dry and sprinkle both sides with sea salt and pepper. Heat 1 1/2 tablespoons butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then brown chops in 3 batches, turning once, 6 minutes per batch, and transfer with tongs to a large shallow baking pan (1 inch deep).
- Add shallots and remaining tablespoon butter to skillet and cook over moderate heat, turning occasionally, until golden brown and tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Add cider and boil, stirring and scraping up brown bits, until reduced to about 3/4 cup, about 3 minutes.
- Spoon shallots and sauce around chops and roast in lower third of oven until thermometer inserted horizontally into center of 1 chop (do not touch bone) registers 150°F, 7 to 9 minutes.
- Let chops stand, loosely covered with foil, 5 minutes (temperature will rise to 155°F while standing). Serve chops with shallots and sauce.


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REMINDER: Kickstart Local UFO Film 'The Maury Island Incident' Wed., Dec. 5
REMINDER: The kick-off party to help kickstart a new film about a local UFO mystery – The Maury Island Incident – will be held from 5:30 – 7 p.m. on Wednesday night, Dec. 5 at the Tin Theater in Olde Burien.
"The Maury Island Incident," will be a film based on the true story of a man's UFO sighting claim near Maury Island on June 21, 1947. This often-overlooked incident happened just two days before Ken Arnold's Mount Rainier sighting, which spawned the phrase "flying saucers," and 16 days before the infamous Roswell crash.
It also included what is considered by many experts to be the first "Men in Black" encounter as well.
The film will be directed by Scott Schaefer (Founder/Publisher, South King Media/The B-Town Blog; 3-time National Emmy winning Writer, "Bill Nye the Science Guy"), and Written by Steve Edmiston ("Crimes of the Past," "A Relative Thing," and local favorite "The Day My Parents Became Cool" – read our previous coverage of that film here).
"When I worked in Hollywood, I directed for a UFO TV show called 'Sightings,'" Schaefer said. "I went into the job entirely skeptical about all of the crazy UFO-lore, but within two years of working on this program, I was no longer skeptical."
"This is a great, somewhat overlooked local mystery," Edmiston added. "It's a true story about an ordinary man's extraordinary decision to share what he's seen, and the unanticipated, life-and-death costs of his choice."
Shooting is scheduled to begin June 21, 2013 – the 66th anniversary of the alleged sighting, with release set for June, 2014.
At the kick-off kickstart party, Filmmakers plan on sharing once-classified FBI and government documents about the case, discuss the story, explain what they need to make it and how people can help, and much more.
The Tin Theater is located at 923 SW 152nd Street in Olde Burien.
Since seating at the Tin Theater is limited, organizers are asking those interested in attending to please RSVP for the party by emailing [email protected].
Here's more info on the folks behind this new production from the film's website:
Steve Edmiston works as an independent feature film screenwriter and producer. He is also an attorney with 25 years of experience practicing business, litigation intellectual property, and entertainment law. Edmiston is a frequent teacher, advisor, and speaker on film and film industry issues. He has shown his films at a variety of festivals including: Palm Springs, Fort Lauderdale, Seattle International Film Festival, Big Island Film Festival, Ashland and Port Townsend.
Edmiston Wrote and Directed the award-winning short The Day My Parents Became Cool, which was shot entirely in the south Puget Sound area.
Find more information on Edmiston's screen credits and films, including cast information, trailer videos and release dates on IMDb.
Scott Schaefer is a three-time National Emmy Award winning Writer (Bill Nye the Science Guy, PBS/Disney) with over 27 years' experience in media, including over 20 as a Director and Producer, six of which were spent in the trenches of Hollywood.
His directing credits includes for the TV shows Penn & Teller:Bullsh*t! (Showtime) where he was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directing in a Reality Show (2005), Sightings (a UFO show for Paramount Pictures), The Arsenio Hall Show (Paramount), Totally Hidden Video (Fox), The Late Show (Fox), Fox On-Air Promotions, Almost Live! (KING-TV, where he won 6 Local Emmy Awards) and many others in-between.
Schaefer currently runs a network of six local blogs and an internet radio station for an area south of Seattle called South King Media, which includes the award-winning B-Town Blog. Find more information on him on his website or IMDB.
Our first Investors, Laura Beth and Scott Peterson, are longtime area residents whose company, SAFE Boats, makes high-speed aluminum boats in Gig Harbor for military, federal, state and local law enforcement, fire and rescue agencies throughout North America and around the world.
An accomplished Advertising Manager, Nancy spent 15 years as Director of Corporate Communications & Media Relations for the McDonald's Corporation, eleven years with Horizon Air and four years with The Bon Marche.
Nancy was invited to join the management team at Highline Public Schools as interim Public Information Officer. Then in October 2001, she accepted the permanent role of the district's Director of Human Resources.
In September 2008, Nancy joined the Aviation High School staff as Program Director to dedicate time to design, develop and manage Career Readiness/Mentoring and Internships programs. In 2009, she received her Career & Technical Education teaching certificate and now, along with her role in the Career Readiness effort, she teaches Aviation Careers.
Dan is the local boy turned Sausageman who opened Burien's favorite bar and new HD theater. One of his lifelong dreams has been to work on a film and now he's going to get his chance.
This party will be your first chance to get on board this film's team! Come and hear the presentation to learn more – but please RSVP for the party by emailing [email protected].
For more information on The Maury Island Incident film:
- WEBSITE: http://www.mauryislandincident.com
- FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/MauryIslandIncident
- FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/events/295603230557056/


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MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) Milton Chavis scored 17 points, Chad Posthumus had 16 points and 9 rebounds, and Morehead State scored 60 second-half points en route to a 101-50 victory against Alice Lloyd on Thursday.
Cordell James also scored 16, Bakari Turner had 15, and Angelo Werner pulled down 11 rebounds for the Eagles (2-1) of the Ohio Valley Conference.
Tyler Rogers scored 14 points for Alice Lloyd (3-4), an NAIA school that competes in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Morehead State shot 50.6 percent from the field (41 for 81) and held Alice Lloyd to 30.9 percent (17 for 55). The Eagles won the rebound battle 57-28.
In the first half, Morehead State shot 42.1 percent from the field (16 of 38) to Alice Lloyd's 25.9 percent (7 of 27) to take a 40-21 lead.


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SAN FRANCISCO — A man was stabbed to death after a fight broke out near San Francisco's AT&T Park, where the Giants were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers, authorities said.
Police were releasing few details about the stabbing other than to say it occurred shortly after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at Third and Harrison streets during a confrontation between two groups of men. Police have detained three people in the area and are interviewing witnesses, but have not made any arrests, Sgt. Danielle Newman said.
She said police were not disclosing additional information, including whether the fight involved rival fans.
The violence comes just three days after a teenage football fan was attacked at San Francisco's Candlestick Park during the San Francisco 49ers 27-7 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. Other violence broke out at the game on Sunday despite an increase in security.
The stadium was also the site of two shootings, beatings and fights during a preseason game two years ago.
Stadium security and fan behavior also came under scrutiny when another Dodgers-Giants matchup saw a Northern California paramedic severely beaten. Brian Stow, a Giants fan, suffered a traumatic brain injury after a beating by two men dressed in Dodgers gear following the March 31, 2012, home opener between the teams.


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