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It's about to get a lot harder to find pirated music, movies, e-books, and software through Google Search.
In a clear effort to appease the Hollywood entertainment gods, Google announced today that it plans to change its algorithm to push websites repeatedly accused of copyright infringement further down its search page ranking.
"Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results," wrote Amit Singhal, Google Senior Vice President of Engineering, on the company blog. "This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily — whether it's a song previewed on NPR's music website, a TV show on Hulu, or new music streamed from Spotify."
The planned algorithm change is one of the most proactive anti-piracy measures ever employed by Google, which repeatedly came under direct fire during the debates surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) for profiting (through advertising) off of online piracy. While those bills essentially died in mid-January thanks to an outpouring of opposition from Web users, the changes announced today by Google go a long way toward achieving similar censorship effects.
Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) Chairman and CEO Cary Sherman was quick to praise Google's actions as a win for the entertainment industry, artists and labels alike.
"Today Google has announced a potentially significant change in its search rankings that can make a meaningful difference to creators: sites that are the subject of large numbers of copyright removal notices may be ranked lower in search results than before," said Sherman in a statement. "This should result in improved rankings for the licensed music services that pay artists and deliver fans the music they love. This change is an important step in the right direction – a step we've been urging Google to take for a long time – and we commend the company for its action."
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) also praised Google's action, but took a more skeptical tone in its congratulations.
"We are optimistic that Google's actions will help steer consumers to the myriad legitimate ways for them to access movies and TV shows online, and away from the rogue cyberlockers, peer-to-peer sites, and other outlaw enterprises that steal the hard work of creators across the globe," said Michael O'Leary, MPAA Senior Executive Vice President for Global Policy and External Affairs, in a statement (pdf). "We will be watching this development closely — the devil is always in the details — and look forward to Google taking further steps to ensure that its services favor legitimate businesses and creators, not thieves."
Google says it is able to implement this change to its algorithm thanks to the vast number of copyright violation notices, filed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that it now receives. Singhal noted that Google has received requests to remove "more than 4.3 million URLs" in the past 30 days alone — more than the Internet giant received in all of 2009.
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When the Volkswagen Group bought Lamborghini, many believed that the Germans would end the automotive insanity the Italian brand had come to represent. Yet two decades later, the Italian company is as mad as ever with models including the Aventador SV and ultra-low-volume Centenario keeping the brand as desirable as it has ever been.
Least Expensive: After the success of the all-wheel drive Huracan LP610-4, Lamborghini introduced the Huracan LP580-2, a rear-drive Huracan with a slightly detuned V-10 engine and a wilder personality. It's also the least expensive starting, with a price under $250,000.
Sportiest: Using much of what makes the Aventador SV such a potent supercar including a V-12 producing over 700 horsepower, the Centenario is a celebration of Lamborghini's birthday and what's possible without mass-market constraints.
Popular: The Huracan is popular, but with an SUV on the way called the Urus, that unconventional offering might become a best-seller.
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The best part of a new Verge story on the history of Windows is a link to a 1984 New York Times article headlined "VALUE OF WINDOWING IS QUESTIONED."
In it, Erik Sanberg-Diment suggests that Windows and the whole concept of graphical interfaces is just "pretentious pep talk of the software industry."
He starts his article asking: "Does anyone do windows any more?…The answer is, not really."
He ends with this slam and confident prediction:
In the somewhat pretentious pep talk of the software industry, windowing was to emulate the familiar, comforting desktop, a cluttered one at that. But it is extremely difficult to use efficiently a system that displays bits and pieces of documents in windows next to and above and below each other, like so many papers spread out in overlapping piles on a desk with just their edges sticking out here and there to identify them. So little was visible of each document, so few identifying lines, that the user often simply forgot what was hidden underneath.
…Windows were a great idea until you compared them with the old-fashioned, uncomputerized desk, at which point it became obvious that they were simply too complicated to be dealt with efficiently. They made life more difficult, not easier, and they will continue to do so until a video display the size of a desktop can make visible a number of complete documents, each in its own window. That is something unlikely to occur, if for no other reason than cost, for at least a decade.


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This article originally appeared in the NZHerald on December 4th 2011. Donna McIntyre sets out in search of the Hauraki Gulf's bounty on a fishing charter boat. Every day's a good day as long as you're still alive, quips Phil Scott, fishing guide on Waiheke Island. And right now, I can't think of many places I'd rather be, having a great day and….. Continue reading
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The signals can be interpreted by motor controllers in different ways:
- The direction of rotation can be determined from the phase shift, when the rising edge of a signal first appears.
- Low speeds can be determined by measuring the time between two electrical events, such events being the rising and falling edge on either square wave.
- High speeds can be measured by counting the number of electrical events within a given time period.
The two square waves are 90° out of phase with each other. This phase shift changes sign with the direction of rotation. Fig. 2 shows the general specifications of the signal. The presence of two signals in quadrature enables a processing unit to multiply the number of angular position increments per revolution. For example, using a standard SKF sensor bearing with 64 pulses per revolution and a standard electronic interface that can detect the rising (Low/High) and falling (High/Low) times of each of the two signals, it is possible to obtain 256 electrical events per revolution, which translates to an angular resolution of 1,4° (fig. 2).
SKF motor encoder units provide accurate and reliable signals for effective motor control and are 100% tested for period accuracy, duty cycle and phase shift during manufacture.
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Thanks to a surplus of hatchery fish this year, MassWildlife is able to do one last stocking of six local trout ponds: South Pond, Brookfield; Webster Lake, Webster; Lake Dennison, Winchendon; Quinsigamond Lake, Worcester; Whalom Lake, Lunenburg; and Fort Pond, Lancaster. Massachusetts fisheries biologists and their technicians continue to do an outstanding job providing trout fishing opportunities.
Yesterday, my son and I pulled our Cape Cod Bay lobster pots for the last time this year. Strangely, three of the 10 had scup in them, along with numerous sculpin and comical sea squirts. The porgies seem to be spreading as our colder waters warm. Dangerous conditions and the lure of bow and bird hunting have all conspired to get us off the water now.
In October, we sometimes can't safely launch for a week, and untended lobster pots turn into killing traps. As other aggressive lobsters enter the pots, they fight and feed on each other inside. It's not fair to the resource to allow the carnage that invariably follows unattended pots.
Most local charter boat captains pull out their boats by Columbus Day as well. With kids back in school and fishing tourists getting as scarce as migrating baitfish and stripers, business plummets.
There will be widespread postpartum depression for many anglers until next spring's water temperatures again reach the magical threshold of 55 degrees, luring mackerel, squid and other attractive baitfish back here. But as the curtain falls on our saltwater fishing, another rises for bird and bow hunters, with pheasant season opening tomorrow, and deer hunting beginning Monday.
With pheasant season opening, tomorrow is like Christmas for local bird dogs. If my Brittany knew what was in store for him Saturday morning, he wouldn't be able to sleep. Pheasant covers will be well stocked for a battalion of shooters.
Saturdays at wildlife management areas lure a few too many shooters for my taste, though — especially on opening day. I'll hunt at my favorite club with my wife and good friends. Many local sportsmen's clubs are involved in our state's pheasant stocking program. You can get a lot of quality hunting and meet some wonderful hunters by joining one. As for the management areas, I tend to hunt them with great pleasure during the week. Usually by 10 o'clock, they empty out, affording the solitude that makes hunting so much more enjoyable for you and your bird dog.
MassWildlife has helped many working hunters by not predictably stocking management areas on a set schedule during the week. Too many people were taking advantage of the system. Though the current policy doesn't stop a few from following the stocking trucks out of the farm gate in the morning, it does give hunters with varying work schedules more of a chance to fairly share the resource.
There were fearful rumors in the sportsman's community that wildlife management areas weren't going to be stocked this year. The rumors were wrong. Word was spreading that Barre Falls was being shut down in deference to the Frisbee golf course participants there. In actuality, the Frisbee playing is in the vicinity of the picnic tables up by the Route 62 entrance, an area that has not been stocked for some time. The traditional Barre Falls stocking areas off Route 122 — the prison camps/Four Corners area — will continue to be stocked with their perennial allotment in appropriate habitat. All other wildlife management areas will continue to receive their normal allotment as well.
For many years, Massachusetts pheasant hunters have been the beneficiary of 40,000 stocked birds. The number has been constant during that time — a result of a policy that draws 100 percent on contracted birds from private hatcheries. There are 40,000 birds paid for, and 40,000 birds received. When MassWildlife was in the business of raising pheasants, there were more erratic boom or bust years. Sometimes there was a surplus exceeding 40,000 pheasants; and one year in the mid-1980s, there was an 80 percent mortality rate, largely from the catastrophic spread of rotavirus at the Ayer hatchery.
With all hatchery production privately provided and a good deal of the stocking done by sportsmen's clubs enrolled in the state pheasant program, distributing birds on their properties, the 40,000 number has been dependably constant, and stocking costs have been minimized. Bottom line: there will be plenty of pheasants for bird hunters this season — all provided by sportsmen's dollars.
One fact, however, that we should all fear — and this is no rumor — is that access continues to diminish for hunters throughout the state. There has been, according to Mass Fish & Wildlife director Wayne MacCallum, tremendous damage from dumping in our wild areas, public and private. The trash includes everything from refrigerators and tires to hazardous wastes.
In addition, unauthorized ATV drivers (many are kids enabled by irresponsible parents, some of whom accompany them) are causing serious erosion damage. We sportsmen should do all we can to minimize this damage, as the consequences will continue to be less open land for us to pursue our tradition.
Tomorrow — Quail, grouse and pheasant seasons open, through Nov. 24.
Tomorrow — Squirrel season opens in Zones 10-14, through Jan. 2.
Tomorrow — Ladies-only introduction to shooting and archery, Royalston Fish & Game. Free. Preregistration required. Info: (978) 248-9875.
Sunday — Singletary Safari League 3D Shoot. Info: Ron Kaslauskas, (508) 839-0098.
Sunday — Singletary Rod & Gun Club gigantic monthly meat raffle, 300 Sutton Ave., Oxford, 2 p.m. Six meat tables, one lobster table. Open to the public.
Sunday — Lake Quaboag bird walk, Forbush Bird Club. Meet at Lake Quaboag parking lot on Shore Road, Brookfield at 7:30 a.m. Leader: Rodney Jenkins, (508) 757-5010.
Sunday — N.H. Audubon Fall Pelagic Trip, aboard the MV/Granite State with leader Steve Mirick, search the length of Jeffrey's Ledge 20 miles offshore for gannets, puffins, petrels, shearwaters, skuas, dovekies, murres and razorbills, as well as whales and dolphins. Cost: $85. Info: (603) 668-2045.
Monday — Massachusetts archery deer season opens, through Nov. 24.
Monday: Saw-whet owl banding demonstration at Lookout Rock, Uxbridge. 7 pm. $15. Info: Beth Milke at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wednesday — 929 surplus Zone 11 antlerless deer permits will be available at 8 a.m. to purchase by home computer or license vendor on the MassFishHunt system on a first-come, first-serve basis. Those who already have a Zone 11 permit will not be eligible for a second.
Thursday — Nipmuc Milford Ducks Unlimited Porketta and Pasta Feed, Hoboken Club, 253 Central St., Milford. Cost: $25. Info: www.MA.ducks.org, (508) 881-4730.
Thursday — Forbush Bird Club special program on the prairie warbler, Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook, 414 Massasoit Road, Worcester, 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Michael Akresh.
Oct. 20 — Start of Archery Plus Youth Instructional League, 107 North Spencer Road, Spencer, 10 a.m.-noon. Ages 7 and up. Taught by NAA certified instructors Charlie Harris, Barbara McCall and Dave Ferrie. Equipment provided for youths without it. Information: Brett or Keith, (508) 885-3336, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com


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Following is a list of common myths about energy and energy savings. Sometimes the basic premise of the myth may be correct, but the energy savings are much smaller than people realize. In other cases, the myth may be based on factors that were once true but that have been subsequently resolved through better design or manufacturing of products. In all cases, the bottom line is that you should always think critically when you hear a "tip†on how to save energy - and dig a little deeper to separate the myths from the facts.
Myth: Buying an efficient air conditioner or furnace will automatically reduce my energy bill.
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Tracking Down the Menace in Mexico City Smog
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BERKELEY, CA – A new report by scientists who are part of the international MILAGRO Campaign indicates that some of the most harmful air pollution in Mexico City may not come from motor vehicles but instead originates with industrial sources – and that the culprit may be garbage incineration.
A clear day and a smoggy day, as seen from the MILAGRO Campaign's T0 test site on the roof of the Mexican Institute of Petroleum in northern Mexico City. (Photos by Mary Gilles)
The MILAGRO Campaign (Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations) monitored air quality in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area throughout the month of March, 2006. Headed by the Molina Center for Energy and the Environment in La Jolla, California, MILAGRO – the acronym means "miracle" in Spanish – is an international scientific collaboration supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and other agencies in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe. Five DOE labs contributed to the study, including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Beamline 11.0.2 at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) was used for scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) of aerosol particles, in work led by Mary Gilles of the Lab's Chemical Sciences Division. Ryan Moffet, now a Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab, was a member of a team monitoring a rooftop collection station at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum in the northern part of Mexico City, a site designated T0 (T-zero); the evidence gathered there was among that analyzed by Gilles and her colleagues.
"The T0 site is in the industrial heart of the city, but the neighborhood is also a densely populated residential area. Children who live here have 11 percent higher levels of lead in their blood than children from the opposite side of town," says Moffet, who was a doctoral student at the University of California at San Diego during the MILAGRO Campaign. Moffet is first author of a report in Environmental Science & Technology on the research at the T0 site. "Although researchers had noted the high levels of lead, no one before us had analyzed the aerosol compounds for clues to its origins."
Airborne particles of varying size, shape, and chemical composition are an important constituent of the smog in Mexico City, one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most polluted. The aerosols come from motor vehicles, industries, and residences; their sources include the burning of fossil fuels and biomass, and industrial emissions. Because of the city's high elevation in a basin walled by mountains, air pollution in the metropolitan area is often trapped in the basin and chemically altered by ultraviolet radiation and other processes.
Metal-containing aerosols in particular are implicated in adverse effects on health. Size and solubility affect their mobility in the body; for example, small particles with compact shapes penetrate deep into the lungs, where they are likely to stay. Soluble compounds readily enter the bloodstream. And a metal's oxidation state affects its toxicity.
Measuring airborne particles
Many different instruments were used to collect the aerosol samples at several sites: one, a Davis Rotating Drum, captured particles of three different sizes on Teflon tapes; another, a Time Resolved Aerosol Impactor, collected single particles. In situ measurements were made with an Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ATOFMS), which sucked particles into a vacuum chamber, determined their size, and analyzed the mass spectra of their constituent chemicals on the fly, by zapping each with a laser pulse.
Spectra from tens of thousands of particles were stored for later analysis. The rotating drum and ATOFMS yielded time series, allowing the researchers to determine how size, shape, chemical composition, and the changing mix of chemicals in the aerosol particles varied with the time of day and other factors like weather.
"When we started the study, we were interested in what fraction of the aerosols was from traffic, since many scientists believed that traffic was the worst source of the pollution," says Moffet. "But when I looked at the mass spectrometry data, the first thing that jumped at me was the lead spikes. We wondered what the source of the lead was. Lead has been completely banned in gasoline sold in the city since 1997, which meant the aerosols were coming from something else."
Many anthropogenic (human caused) sources contribute to the metal-containing aerosols in Mexico City air. Nickel and vanadium are associated in particles from fossil-fuel burning. Smelting and other metallurgical processes produce emissions rich in heavy metals. Burning waste emits particles containing lead, zinc, and many other metals, plus chlorine. Activities like construction and traffic stir up dust and send large metal-containing particles into the atmosphere. All these sources can be identified by their characteristic compositions.
"In many of the spikes the lead was associated with chlorine and zinc," Moffet says. "The nature of the chemical associations of these metals could give us valuable clues as to the origin of the particles and their subsequent processing."
Mass spectrometry results were available on the spot, while additional informative data came from later laboratory analyses, including proton-induced x-ray emission and computer-controlled scanning electron microscopy directed by Alexander Laskin at the W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State, the STXM studies by Mary Gilles at Berkeley Lab's ALS, and other researchers using additional techniques.
Narrowing the suspects
By comparing the mixing of lead, zinc, and chloride in the T0 particles to previous studies characterizing the sources of metal-containing aerosols, clues to the source of the Mexico City particles quickly emerged. Both nonferrous (non-iron) smelters and municipal waste incinerators emit particles that contain lead and zinc, and both have similar compositions – except that smelter particles do not contain phosphorus and chlorine, while incinerator particles do.
Needle-like particles containing lead, zinc, and chlorine were among the several forms of metallic particles collected at the T0 site during the MILAGRO Campaign.
The particles that contained lead and zinc in the T0 aerosols did contain phosphorus and chlorine, and had other species in common with incinerator samples, including soot. Particles from smelting typically have more iron; moreover, smelter emissions do not have large amounts of chlorine but do have high concentrations of sulfates, which were missing in the T0 samples.
ALS beamline 11.0.2 helped further zero in on the chemical makeup of particles containing zinc. Incinerators produce metal chlorides, which in the atmosphere can react with acidic gases and become other species like nitrates: many of the zinc-containing particles from T0 were zinc nitrates, suggesting their origin in incinerator emissions. Zinc oxides were also among the particles collected at T0; nitrates, chlorides, and sulfates are partitioned on zinc oxide surfaces, and all are found in the lead and zinc-rich aerosols from T0.
The occurrence of lead and zinc particles at different times of day – and even different days of the month – added more evidence for incineration as the principal source of the airborne metals. On most days, metal-rich particles at the T0 site peaked early in the morning, as early morning air masses from the northeastern part of the city carried them to other neighborhoods. The lag time of metal nitrates behind metal chlorides matched the time needed for reactions with nitric acid in the air. Perhaps most telling, during the month-long collection, the lowest concentration of metal-rich particles occurred on a holiday weekend when most industrial processes were shut down.
The lead-bearing aerosol particles found in Mexico City are small, many of them needle-shaped, making them easy to inhale and likely to stay in the lungs. As time passes, the initial metal chlorides are converted to lead nitrates, which are soluble and readily enter the blood stream.
Can garbage incineration be unequivocally identified as the source of the worst pollution in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area? Not quite yet, says Moffet.
"At present the government is not keeping track of emissions from incinerators, and incineration is not even listed in the emissions inventory for the metropolitan area," he says, "although we saw garbage incinerators in the northern part of Mexico City. But even short of absolute proof of bad health effects, incineration – especially of discarded electronics, which are loaded with heavy metals and chlorine – is a dangerous process and a growing problem in developing countries."
"Characterization of aerosols containing Zn, Pb, and Cl from an industrial region of Mexico City," by Ryan Moffet, Yuri Desyaterik, Rebecca Hopkins, Alexei Tivanski, Mary Gilles, Vaithiyalingam Shutthanandan, Luisa Molina, R. Gonzalez Abraham, Kenneth Johnson, Violeta Mugica, Mario Molina, Alexander Laskin, and Kimberly Prather, appears in Environmental Science & Technology and is available to subscribers at http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es7030483.
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Widely used in Chinese herbal medicine, the herb corydalis is said to alleviate pain by "moving qi" and "stimulating the blood." These expressions refer to traditional concepts included within the complex theories of traditional Chinese herbal medicine . In terms of Western diagnostic categories, corydalis may be recommended for soft tissue injuries , menstrual discomfort , and abdominal pain.
The part of the plant used medicinally is the rhizome (underground stalk).
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There is no reliable evidence that corydalis or its constituents offer any medicinal benefits. Corydalis contains a number of active and potentially dangerous chemicals in the alkaloid family, including tetrahydropalmatine (THP), corydaline, protopine, tetrahydrocoptisine, tetrahydrocolumbamine, and corybulbine. Of these, THP may be the most active, as well as the most toxic (see Safety Issues ).
Only double-blind , placebo-controlled studies can actually show that a treatment works, and there is only one such study that is relevant to corydalis. This trial tested THP as a treatment for a type of heart rhythm abnormality called supraventricular arrhythmia. 1 Reportedly, use of THP produced significant benefits as compared to placebo. However, this study was conducted in China, and there is considerable skepticism about the validity of Chinese medical trials. 2 (For information on why double-blind studies are essential, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-blind Trials? )
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Insurgents launched 135 attacks and killed 26 people across all regions of Afghanistan during Thursday's presidential elections.
An election day, with its images of proud voters showing any ink-stained finger, can provide fragile democracies with a confidence boost. The violence here, however, drained much of that energy from the day.
But expectations had been so low for this election that Afghan officials still called it a win. Some analysts considered it a draw.
"Insecurity clearly had an impact on voter turnout," says Andrew Wilder, an Afghanistan expert at the Tufts International Center in Medford, Mass. "That said, it wasn't stopped [and] there were no devastating attacks on election day that [turned] it into a victory for the Taliban." Wilder says that, by the standards of past Afghan elections, security was better than expected.
But there was still violence across the country as the Taliban tried to make good on its process to disrupt the vote.
Southeastern Afghanistan had the most incidents with 10 suicide attacks, 10 mine blasts and three other attacks according to data provided by the ministry of defense.
Official Afghan reporting on the violence today tended to be much lower than independent tallies. For instance, the BBC reported that Laskhar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, was hit by 20 rockets and a local journalist in Kandahar said nine rockets struck that city today. Yet the defense ministry said there were only five attacks across an Afghan region that includes Laskhar Gah and Kandahar.
Even official data showed that the west and north – regions that for years have been calmer than the rest of Afghanistan – saw significant insurgent attacks.
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"They acted like they had a chain of command, connected to each other in different areas of Afghanistan," says Waliullaw Rahmani, head of the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies, of insurgent efforts to disrupt the election. But he also said Thursday showed that "the Taliban and insurgents still are not strong enough to stop the current process in Afghanistan."
Security officials said the day would have gone much worse if not for their efforts. Security forces foiled 12 attacks in Herat and six more in Kandahar province, said Amrullah Saleh, the head of Afghanistan's intelligence service, at a press conference.
In Kabul, the police killed three suicide attackers near a police station on Thursday, and also three suicide attackers were killed in the city on Wednesday. Two police suffered injuries in return for those six kills, he said. "This is an amazing ratio: two police injured in return for eliminating six... this is unprecedented. You cannot expect better anywhere else in the world," said Mr. Saleh.
He went on to claim that officials had evidence – not furnished to the media – that religious schools in Pakistan near the border had shut down and encouraged students to launch attacks inside Afghanistan to disrupt the elections.
In the days ahead, election observers will be trying to determine whether the violence disenfranchised enough voters to tip the outcome of the election or if there are signs of widespread fraud.
It appears that violence prevented a number of polling places from opening across the country. Since transport is very difficult in Afghanistan – during campaigning, candidates had to pay to bus potential voters to events if they lived further than a donkey's ride away – a closed polling center means most of the people it was meant to serve wouldn't have found an alternative way to vote.
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The closures estimated on Wednesday appeared to be concentrated in heavily ethnic-Pashtun provinces like Helmand and Wardak, and in provinces like Badghis that have large Pashtun minorities. Those are areas that analysts expect would vote for President Hamid Karzai. The higher turn out reported in the north would favor his closest competitor former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.
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Fifty-seven Roberts Hawaii and Polynesian Adventure Tour buses brought the guests and performers to the Museum where more than 200 set designers, actors, dancers, sound and light technicians spent two weeks building the show in Hangar 79. The Museum staff assisted by moving aircraft and property to create an ambience fitting for the event, and by coordinating security access and ground movement for all guests, performers, and crew.
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In a paper published in Conservation Letters, researchers from the University of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) argue that despite record levels of funding being invested in enforcement and anti-poaching measures, many species are already on the path of extinction and bold strategies are needed to protect them.
Co-authors Dan Challender and Professor Douglas MacMillan call for resources to be directed to a broader range of long-term conservation strategies, which go beyond regulation and intensifying enforcement effort, to conserve high-value species such as the African elephant, tiger and pangolins.
The paper also provides evidence that regulatory approaches are being overwhelmed by the drivers of poaching and trade, with enforcement of trade controls, including those agreed through CITES – the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species - attracting organised criminals who have the capacity to operate even under increased enforcement effort.
Dan Challender of DICE, Co-author of the paper, said: 'In the immediate future we should incentivise and build capacity within local communities to conserve wildlife. Current enforcement measures are proving unsuccessful and more needs to be done to bring local communities, which live in close proximity to the species on-board, by rewarding them for conserving wildlife. When their children are hungry and cannot afford to go to school then saving pangolins seems much less of a priority to them.'
Professor MacMillan adds: 'In the longer term we should look to establish legal and sustainable trade in many species threatened by poaching using tax revenues from such trade to fund species conservation efforts.
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20. ADR - Chunky Monkey
Hippos In Tanks
While visual artists have been quick to adapt to the internet's Babel of information, musicians have been slow to comment directly on the vast digital buzz. Hippos In Tanks, as a label, has admirably pushed this conversation forwards while also displaying a fierce devotion to the traditional mediums of CD and vInyl. James Ferraro's "Farside Virtual" (Hippos In Tanks, 2011) was seen as a comment on emerging personality types in the face of rampant technoconsumerism, but in retrospect, can be seen as Ferraro's first step out of the cassette underground into sleeker rnb/hip-hop influenced production Gatekeeper's "Exo" had them abandoning the Carpenter-esque VHS aesthetics of their previous releases, even hiring internet artist Tabor Robak to create a playable game for reach song. The most successful effort in creating a musical analog to endless internet-meme driven communication is ADR's "Chunky Monkey".
The record succeeds first and foremost because Aaron David Ross (1/2 of the Gatekeeper) is a completely badass producer. I woudn't be suprised if legitimate pop production is in his future based off of the seemingly effortless genre tourism on display here. Opener "Casual Friday" places samples of sitcom saxaphones against a loping 303 and eerie processed piano that could be lifted from a Prologue release. "Sumo" seems to be an oblique comment on 90s boom-bap, while "What It Takes" could be lifted from a sinister Sprite commercial. "Stray Dog Strut" could be seen as ADR's reading of Sly and Robbie digidub, but in this tune, the comment on internet culture is palpable. In the midst of innocuous and expertly produced genre-exercises, ADR is prone to interrupt with unsettling samples (e.g. a screaming chorus of roller coaster riders) to fray the edges. The effect has an uncanny resemblance to cruising through life with 15 tabs open.


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Hope someone can help.
I have a bunch (approx. 130) of old Cubase files in .ALL format ( a couple in .ARR) which were originally created on my Atari TT. Unfortunately, this no longer works and Cubase SX3 doesn't recognise the older files.
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C. Viper – Cosplay of the Day
The Cosplay of the Day is a Street Fighter whose hair seems to defy gravity and sense of style appears out of place in a fight, but she's proven herself to be pretty adept at keeping that coif looking perfect and her outfit clean. Let's take a look at Crimson Viper!
She's a CIA agent undercover as a member of S.I.N. in Street Fighter 4, and has a variety of tricks literally up her sleeves. Viper can perform electric attacks, rumble the earth with seismic slams, and set opponents ablaze with her tools. She and Cammy must shop at the same store, because it seems like she's a fan of the tiny tie as well, which is something we can support. Crimson Viper is dangerous and stylish, making her one of the coolest characters to grace the Cosplay of the Day feature.
Heres Angela Bermúdez A., from Costa Rica, as the CIA agent herself. We're not sure if that's a wig or if she developed some kind of anti-gravity gel to hold her hair up in that style, but it's definitely an accurate representation of the character's own 'do. Just like Crimson's name and hair, this cosplayer is red-hot and very talented.
Click here to head to Angela's deviantART page and see all of her great art on top of her fabulous cosplay pieces!


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Tests and reviews of different batteries to help you find the Right One…
The 1.2V AA 3000 mAh VTEC Ultra Capacity 2 NiMH batteries are being distributed by LRP and NOSRAM, popular names in the remote control models and are supposed to be of high quality and true to specs. So if these guys say that the batteries from their VTEC brand are supposed to offer a given capacity you are expecting them not only to meet it, but also exceed it. Now, these VTEC batteries are being sold as 3000 mAh capacity (clearly written on LRP and NOSRAM websites), though on the batteries themselves only 3000 is written and not a single rating mentioning capacity in mAh. Anyway, let us see if these batteries are able to offer the performance they are supposed to or not…
Starting our test of the 1.2V AA 3000 mAh VTEC Ultra Capacity 2 NiMH batteries as we normally do with a low constant current discharge rate of 0.2A and the result we got was just 2178 mAh as capacity. As we've already mentioned the VTEC brand by LRP/NOSRAM is supposed to be offering high quality products that do not come at a very affordable prices, so we repeated the test multiple times with different batteries, but the result was pretty much the same. And we are sure these are not some fake Chinese batteries branded as VTEC as we got them form an official distributor of NOSRAM. Getting less than 800 mAh capacity at lower discharge rate than the supposed capacity is a real disappointment, we really expected a much better result. Even if we take into account that the higher the capacity of NiMH batteries goes the faster they self-discharge in the first day after being fully charged, loosing so much in terms of capacity is just a few hours is way too much to be considered an option. And while the performance remains good when increasing the constant current discharge rate at up to 2.0A in our tests, these batteries clearly should've been labeled as 2200 mAh and not as 3000 mAh. Again, these VTEC batteries have shown us really unsatisfactory performance and have disappointed us quite a lot, so there is no way we would recommend them as there are much better alternatives.
The performance of the 1.2V AA 3000 mAh VTEC Ultra Capacity 2 NiMH Batteries in our tests:
– 2178 mAh at 0.2A load
– 1967 mAh at 0.5A load
– 1839 mAh at 1.0A load
– 1805 mAh at 2.0A load
– 2.729 Wh at 0.2A load
– 2.407 Wh at 0.5A load
– 2.179 Wh at 1.0A load
– 1.938 Wh at 2.0A load


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In late February in Chardon, Ohio, a teenage student of Lake Academy Alternative School, opened fire in the Chardon High School cafeteria, killing 1 and wounding 4. The teen gunman was chased out of the building by the assistant football coach, where he was later identified and arrested. In late December, the gunman updated his Facebook status with a dark poem, which ended with "Die, all of you." School and town officials are shocked at the tragedy
What should happen to him? What if that student had been your little brother or sister? What if the shooter had been your little brother or sister? Tragedies such as this bring out the candlelit vigils and moral outrage of society, particularly when the victims or perpetrators are acquaintances. How could this teen monster be allowed in our school? How did he get a gun? How did no one see this coming? People grab their torch and pitchforks and seek retribution, while others link arms and pray for the shooter's mental health, each a unique perspective on justice.
On the mercy scale, where do you fall? Do you push for the death penalty, indefinite imprisonment, mental rehabilitation, counseling, what? When you break down the situation, you have one human killing other humans. Consider an escaped convict taken a mother and her children hostage, killing all of them in attempts to resist police. What's the difference between these two tragedies? The convict is clearly more likely to evoke a call to far more brutal punishment, but what element evokes the call to arms? How many people have to be killed, how young does the shooter have to be, how brutal must the crimes be to tip the scales of mercy?
No trial date has yet been set, nor much more information released, but crimes like this challenge the public to examine their beliefs: Where do you stand on capital punishment, and what does it take to push you from mercy to more drastic forms of retribution?


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Contact Information
Buffalo General Medical Center
100 High Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
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Bariatric Program
Life After Surgery
The following identifies areas that will be important for patients to follow after weight loss surgery:
Going Back to Work
Birth Control & Pregnancy
Long-Term Follow-Up
Support Groups
The modifications made to the gastrointestinal tract will require permanent changes in eating habits that must be adhered to for successful weight loss. Post-surgery dietary guidelines will vary by surgeon. It is important to remember that every surgeon does not perform the exact same weight loss surgery procedure and that the dietary guidelines will be different for each surgeon and each type of procedure. What is most important is that you adhere strictly to your surgeon's recommended guidelines. The following are some of the generally accepted dietary guidelines a weight loss surgery patient may encounter:
- When you start eating solid food, it is essential that you chew thoroughly. You will not be able to eat steaks or other chunks of meat if they are not ground or chewed thoroughly.
- Don't drink fluids while eating. They will make you feel full before you have consumed enough food.
- Omit desserts and other items with sugar listed as one of the first three ingredients.
- Omit carbonated drinks, high-calorie nutritional supplements, milk shakes, high-fat foods and foods with high fiber content.
- Avoid alcohol.
- Limit snacking between meals.
Going Back to Work
The ability to resume pre-surgery levels of activity will vary according to a patient's physical condition, the nature of the activity and the type of weight loss surgery you had. Many patients return to full pre-surgery levels of activity within six weeks of their procedure. Patients who have had a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure may be able to return to these activities within a few weeks.
Birth Control & Pregnancy
It is strongly advised that women of childbearing age use the most effective forms of birth control during the first 16 to 24 months after weight loss surgery. The added demands pregnancy places on your body and the potential for fetal damage make this a most important requirement.
Long-Term Follow-Up
Although the short-term effects of weight loss surgery are well understood, there are still questions to be answered about the long-term effects on nutrition and body systems. Nutritional deficiencies that occur over the course of many years need to be studied. Over time, periodic checks for anemia (low red blood cell count) and Vitamin B12, folate and iron levels will be necessary. Follow-up tests will initially be conducted every three to six months, or as needed and then annually thereafter.
Support Groups
The widespread use of support groups has provided weight loss surgery patients an excellent opportunity to discuss their various personal and professional issues. Most learn, for example, that weight loss surgery will not immediately resolve existing emotional issues or heal the years of damage that morbid obesity might have inflicted on their emotional well-being. Most surgeons have support groups in place to assist with short-term and long-term questions and needs. Most bariatric surgeons who frequently perform weight loss surgery suggest that ongoing post-surgical support helps produce the greatest level of success for their patients.
The Center for Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery holds a monthly support group recommended for both pre-operative and post-operative patients. Our support group is held on the third Wednesday of each month; excluding August and December in which no support group is held. The meeting begins at 5:00pm and typically lasts anywhere from 30-90 minutes depending on the topic of discussion. Support groups are held within the clinic at Buffalo General Medical Center; located in the D building on the third floor. If you are interested in attending or would like more information, please register electronically or call the center at 716- 859-1168.