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The Hollywood Walk of Fame celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010 and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce planned numerous events throughout the year to mark this important anniversary.
To begin with, Ringo Starr's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony kicked off the 50th Anniversary on February 8, 2010. The star ceremony which was held at night in front of Capitol Records attracted a huge crowd and was streamed live to the world on Ringo Starr website. The star was the first to bear the 50th Anniversary icon metal as part of the engraved landmark.
Hollywood celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with community festival "Walk the Walk" on Sunday, July 25, 2010. This day-long festival was Hollywood's "open house" with tours of iconic Hollywood theatres and studios, as well as live music, performances, movie screenings and activities for the whole family. Events were scheduled throughout Hollywood, many offered free or at a deep discount for this one day only. Four key locations - Hollywood & Highland Center including the TV Guide studio, Egyptian Theatre, Capitol Records and The Montalban Theatre - showcased the five categories of stars: motion pictures, television, recording, radio and live theatre - and of course the Walk of Fame itself. Many restaurants, retailers and attractions also joined in the celebration offering discounts, special menu items and giveaways. Information stations were located at the four locations with free programs outlining the schedule of events and participating businesses and attractions. Thousands came to the Boulevard and joined in "Walk the Walk," visiting the stars who transformed a Hollywood sidewalk into a historic, international icon.
As the Hollywood Walk of Fame's year-long birthday celebration neared its conclusion, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce planted a time capsule on Thursday, October 28, at the corner of Hollywood and Highland where the Walk of Fame originated. Chamber President and CEO Leron Gubler and television personality Bob Barker buried the stainless steel, fully-sealed capsule which measured 16x16x18 and depicted the Walk of Fame's 50th Anniversary logo. The Hollywood Chamber had collected various items representing the famous landmark and all were placed in a time capsule created by the Future Packing & Preservation Company, LLC of Covina, California. David Paternostro, President of Top End Constructors, the company which makes the stars on the famous sidewalk discussed the placement of the time capsule into the ground. Bob Barker personally placed his own letter which read "Have your pets spayed or neutered!" in the time capsule. The time capsule is scheduled to be opened on the Hollywood Walk of Fame's 100th Anniversary in 2060.
The annual celebration continued as the Hollywood Walk of Fame created one-of-a-kind ceremonies. For the first time in the history of the Walk of Fame and in celebration of the Hollywood Walk of Fame's 50th Anniversary, three stars were dedicated at one time for a family dynasty of actors. Bruce Dern, Laura Dern and Diane Ladd each received their own stars on November 1st at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in front of the W Hollywood. Emcee Leron Gubler, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, President/CEO and guest speakers David Lynch, Mark Ruffalo, Joe Dante, Reverend Della Reese, Barbara Boyle and Council President Eric Garcetti helped unveil the three stars.
History was made when the Hollywood Chamber invited the largest gathering of Walk of Famers in one room at one time! The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce threw a huge celebration for the Hollywood Walk of Fame's 5oth Birthday on Wednesday, November 3. The event began at 6:30 p.m. with a ceremonial time capsule dedication at the corner of Hollywood and Highland next to Joanne Woodward's star, one of the very first eight stars placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, Leron Gubler officiated. Participating in the event were five celebrities who represent the five disciplines of the Walk of Fame. Diane Ladd, represents Motion Pictures, Bob Barker for Television, KLOS radio personality Jim Ladd for Radio, Roger Williams for Recording, and Mickey and Jan Rooney representing the Live Theatre category.
"In the history of the Walk of Fame, this is the first time that we had so many of our recipients in one place at one time! Our late Walk of Fame Chairman, Johnny Grant would have been so proud of this special night in Hollywood!" stated Leron Gubler, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President/CEO.
After the ceremony, invited guests were led to the party, held in the famed Governor's Ballroom and catered by Wolfgang Puck. All Walk of Famers walked the Red Carpet and then proceeded into a special room to be exclusively photographed for an historic, once-in-a-lifetime photo, shot by famed celebrity photographer Harry Langdon. Guests enjoyed the festivities as they watched the historic photo unfold on big screens.
Presenting sponsor L'Oréal Paris created a special edition Colour Riche lipstick called Walk of Fame Pink #50 which was created especially for the occasion and gifted to all guests.
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce appreciates the support of the generous sponsors of this VIP birthday celebration presented by L'Oreal Paris. Other partners included Entertainment Tonight as Media Sponsor and Heineken as Contributing Sponsor.
Diamond Star sponsors included Global Icons, Hollywood Historic Trust, Kaiser Permanente, L. Ron Hubbard Golden Age Theater, Paramount Pictures, and Starline Tours of Hollywood. Platinum Star sponsors included Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, The Hollywood Museum, and Technicolor. Gold Star sponsors include Ashok Amritraj / Hyde Park Entertainment, Entertainment Lighting Services, Inc., HBO, FilmL.A., Inc., Madame Tussauds Hollywood, Norm Marshall & Associates, Universal Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Silver Star include Community Redevelopment Agency/LA, The Gas Company, The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Contractors & Developers, Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa, Screen Actors Guild, Sunset Gower/Sunset Bronson Studios, and Twentieth Century Fox. Bronze Star sponsors include Belmont Village Senior Living, Briggs Law, Central Parking System, Dubin & Associates, Inc., Famous Hollywood Dental Care, The Father of Hollywood, Genesis Financial & Insurance Services, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Honeywell, Iron Mountain Film & Sound Archives, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Langley Productions, LAS Engineering, Inc., The Original Farmers Market, L.A., Inc, The Convention & Visitors Bureau, Vin Di Bona Productions & FishBowl Worldwide Media, W Hollywood, Warner Bros., and Yellow Cab Company.
Hollywood Chamber Celebrated World-famous Walk of Fame's 50th with a Big Birthday Bash!
Hollywood Walk of Famers participated in the dedication ceremony of the Walk of Fame 50th Celebration Time Capsule. Each speaker represented their category. From left Roger Williams, Recording; Mickey and Jan Rooney, Live Theatre; Diane Ladd, Motion Pictures; Jim Ladd, Radio and Bob Barker for the Television category. After the event, celebrities and guests were taken to the Governor's Ballroom where they celebrated with style at the Wolfgang Puck catered affair!
Three Stars Presented to One Family at One Time — a Historic First on Hollywood Walk of Fame to Mark 50th Anniversary
Actors Bruce Dern, Laura Dern and Diane Ladd honored with stars in Motion Picture.
Hollywood Chamber Buried Time Capsule in Honor of its World-famous Walk of Fame's 50th anniversary
Here's to another fifty years!


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Shanghai ups security after Federer threat
BEIJING—A Chinese state media report says security for the Shanghai Masters is being tightened after an online death threat against tennis star 1 Roger Federer.
Shanghai's Youth Daily quoted tournament official Yang Yibin as saying police were notified about the threat and that security will be increased for Federer for the tournament, which starts this weekend.
The report says the threat, posted last month on a Federer fan site by "Blue Cat Polytheism Founder 07," vowed to assassinate Federer. It was accompanied by a gruesome image of a decapitated Federer.
An officer in the Internet security office of the Shanghai police on Friday said the threat is being investigated.
In a statement, the tournament said it is aware of the threat and has proper security in place.
"We are fully aware of the comments that have been made and we take all such issues seriously," the statement said. "The Shanghai Rolex Masters has security in place for our players and every precaution is taken to make sure players are kept safe and comfortable and allowed to do the job they are here for; to play tennis and provide their fans with the thrill of watching them in action."
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As the year comes to an end, so often do the thoughts of healthy eating habits. the thought of keeping the pounds off during the holidays. With multiple holiday parties throughout December, it may seem hard to keep the weight off, but preparation is the key to success.
1) Have a Plan
Plan to succeed or plan to fail. Plan accordingly if you know you are going to be limited on the foods you can eat at holiday parties. Bring some healthy snacks to eat at the party or eat a light meal before going to curb your appetite. Sample the foods at the party, rather than eat a plateful of each dish. If it is a party where you bring a dish, bring something that you know you can eat and enjoy. Vegetables and low fat dip are always a good option to add color to the table.
2) Everything in Moderation
There is no need to avoid your favorite holiday foods if you eat them in moderation. Portion sizes are important in weight management and weight loss. Controlling portions allows you to eat the foods you like without depriving yourself. Take one serving of the food you want to eat and walk away from the table. It is more satisfying to eat smaller portions of a variety of foods than a big portion of one food.
3) Exercise
Keep moving to stay warm as well as burn off those holiday calories. Walking 30 minutes a day, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and doing some light weight resistance training can help keep you on track with your weight loss goals.
4) Drink Right, Feel Right
Drink plenty of water to keep hydrated. Drinking water can make you feel fuller and help prevent overeating. Avoid alcoholic beverages since they add extra calories and sugar. If you do chose to drink alcoholic beverages, drink wine, light beer or spirits with no-calories mixers.
5) When in Doubt, Fruit and Veggie It Out
Include fruits and vegetables at every meal. Snack on vegetables or fruits throughout the day instead of the holidays goodies at work. Not only are fruits/veggies low in calories, they are high in antioxidants, giving you extra immunity during the cold winter months.
6) Forgive Yourself and Move On
Don't let the thought of overindulging at Thanksgiving keep you from moving forward in your weight loss goals during the rest of the holiday season and into the new year. Take every day as a new day and a fresh opportunity to get closer to your goal.


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jginsberg brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 77 Designs von 17 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I am looking for a logo for a company that provides business development services to attorneys. The services provided include 1) providing potential client leads 2) web site and blog development 3) law business marketing consulting. I need a logo designed along with business cards and letterhead.
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I need a logo that has a clean, easily readable font.Because I am servicing attorneys, the feel must be professional - in otherwords this is not a marketing service for general business, it is a marketingservice for lawyers.
- design must be professional. My clients are attorneys (professional)
- logo must suggest trust as my clients can be skeptical and analytical
- logo should suggest creativity with a contemporary look and feel. I am selling my marketing know how
- logo should suggest that I am a visionary and on the leading edge of online and offline marketing
- logo should suggest perpetual growth and progress - new clients, new cases and increased revenues
- logo should encourage engagement - I want clients to call me now
- generally I like a clean look found in Web 2.0 and would consider transparency or even 3D if we can find that delicate balance between professional and creative marketing. Please see this Logorange article.
- I need the logo in a .jpg format and in a format that is scaleable
- the look of the logo must work in both color and in black and white. Attorneys still use faxes regularly and I need the look and feel to come through in a fax, with its inherent resolution issues
- 1. Iam a lawyer myself and one of my unique selling propositions is that as alawyer I have unique insight into the needs of my fellow lawyers. Perhaps myunique status as both a lawyer and a consultant could be incorporated into thedesign.
2. I would estimate that most of my clients will be male attorneys, age 35+
3. I expect that most of my clients will be lawyers providing personal legalservices to clients, as opposed to corporate services. In other words, myclients will be small firms that handle matters like personal bankruptcy,workers comp, social security disability, divorce, criminal.
- no "cartoony" look or anything that is overly colorful. No clip art
- I don't want a logo that looks like a traditional or stock law firm logo (i.e. pillars columns or scales of justice) or one that is overly buttoned-down looking or extremely conservative
- I am generally not a fan of reverse type
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Costs of ObamaCare bungles start to add up, with Maryland first at about $30.5M
Maryland could end up spending as much as $30.5 million as a result of a glitch in its ObamaCare website, as the Obama administration steps in to help states with problematic exchanges.
Because of Maryland's defective exchange, the state cannot determine whether customers remain eligible for Medicaid, according to a report by state budget analysts released Thursday.
As a result, the state has agreed with the federal government to a six-month delay in determining eligibility, meaning that payments will continue to be made to customers who are not eligible until the system is fixed. The delay will cost the state $17.8 million in fiscal 2014 and $12.7 million in fiscal 2015, the analysts estimated.
On Friday, the Obama administration said it would suspend some Affordable Care Act rules to help the 14 states with their own ObamaCare sites, particularly Maryland, Massachusetts, Hawaii and Oregon, which have had the most problems.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan, completed a day earlier, states the federal government will help pay for "qualified" health-insurance plans for customers in those states who because of "exceptional circumstances" had to buy plans outside of ObamaCare exchanges, as reported first by The Washington Post.
The administration made the change before the end-of-March deadline for Americans to enroll in ObamaCare this year.
In Maryland, the exchange cannot convert income data from the existing Medicaid enrollment system into a calculation needed to review whether enrollees are qualified "because of a variety of system architectural flaws," according to budge analysts.
The exchange has been plagued by computer problems that have made it difficult for people to enroll in private health care plans since its debut Oct. 1.
State officials have decided to stick with the exchange through the open enrollment period that ends March 31 but is evaluating alternatives with an eye toward the next enrollment period that begins in November.
Among the possibilities is adopting technology developed by another state, joining a consortium of other states, partnering with the federal exchange or making major fixes to the existing system.
Thirty-six states use the federal HealthCare.gov site, which crashed and had other major problems in the first two months of enrollment.
The Maryland report said the state may need to develop an interim solution while a long-term solution is being developed. However, that process would likely take at least nine to 12 months, pushing up against the next open-enrollment period.
The report also states the development of the exchange was "a high risk undertaking" from the outset, in large part because of contractors woes, tight deadlines, constantly evolving requirement and its need to interface with work-in-progress federal databases.
The administration changes this week are not the first to ObamaCare, to be sure.
In November, Obama helped Americans about to lose policies because they didn't meet new minimum requirements by allow the substandard plans to be sold through the end of this year.
And administration officials has twice this year given medium- and large-sized employers more time to offer health insurance to most full-time workers.
However, the change this week is significant because it marks the first time the federal government has agreed to help pay for policies bought outside the new exchanges.
The coverage in the outside policies would have to be comparable to those offered on the exchange. And customers would have to start paying premiums, then get the subsidies after the state exchanges could determine their income eligibility.
Maryland Health Benefit Exchange official told The Post earlier this week that roughly 7,000 applications are stuck in state's system, but all of them might not need insurance and that officials were still looking over the administration's offer.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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1977 J10 Jeep Truck - Alcoholic
The World's Most Powerful J-Truck?
Fullsize Jeeps are the Rodney Dangerfield of the off-road world; they get no respect. Overshadowed by the "Big Three" fullsize trucks and snubbed by their short-wheelbase brethren, they don't seem to fit in anywhere. But sometimes not fitting in is a good thing. Instead of following trends, Jim Rhodus decided to turn his '77 J10 into a vehicle that would turn heads and demand respect. Jim bought his J-truck when he was only 16, and it was on that old bench seat where he first fell in love with sand drags. The bench seat fell by the wayside a long time ago, as did many of the factory components, but over the past 20 years Jim has transformed his fullsize into a sand drag monster with a niche all its own.
One of the keys to going fast is having a good power-to-weight ratio. The key to a good power-to-weight ratio is more power and less weight. Duh. As the owner of Rhodus Fabrication in Shandon, Ohio, Jim knows a thing or two about how to set up a chassis. To that end, Jim back-halved the J10 in 2000. The frame was replaced with 1 5/8-inch, 0.134-wall tubing that reduces weight and strengthens the chassis. The tubing ties to the internal rollcage and extends all the way into the engine bay for safety and torsional rigidity. Now all of the power is transferred to the ground instead of twisting the frame.
When the rear chassis was built Jim took the opportunity to ditch the 4-inch-lift springs on the truck and redesign the suspension. He had a vision for the entire truck and instead of spending time and money twice, executed it all at once. A custom Rhodus Fabrication rear four-link suspension that uses 1-inch, 0.156-wall DOM links and 3/4 x 5/8-inch FK chromoly rod ends works in conjunction with QA1 coilovers. Up front, more conventional leaf springs are used with QA1 shocks that help transfer the weight to the rear of the vehicle.
Previously the J-truck was powered by a 565 ci big-block making "only" 900 horsepower. Fellow racer and friend Jason Steele offered to build a new engine for the truck with one catch. Building an engine is cool, but knowing that drivers get all the glory, Jason wanted his chance behind the wheel of the J10 too. Once the deal was struck, Jason got to work building a 401 ci V-8, but this is no AMC motor. The small-block Chevy displaces fewer cubes than the previous Rat engine, but it makes up for it with a Procharger F-2 supercharger that pushes 34 pounds of boost through the intake. At the big end of the track, the engine is spinning 8,200 rpm and the belt-driven, centrifugal supercharger is turning a whopping 72,000 rpm. To handle that kind of cylinder pressure, a Dart Rocket block and Dart Pro1 aluminum heads were used in conjunction with a Callies forged steel crankshaft, GRP billet aluminum connecting rods, and JE forged pistons. The engine injests alcohol through a C&S 950cfm blow-through carburetor with electronic float bowls and exhales through custom Rhodus Fabrication headers. Being down 164 cubes to the former Rat, how does the Mighty Mouse measure up? Dyno sheets show a mind-boggling 1,687 horsepower at 8,000 RPM and 1,182 lb-ft of torque at 6,900 rpm.
The quadruple-digit power is routed through a Powerglide two-speed automatic. The 'glide is the transmission of choice for drag racing, as they are light and don't take a lot of horsepower to turn. The transmission uses a Dedenbear case, a Cone 1.69 straight-cut gearset and valvebody, and a super-loose PTC 6,400-stall torque converter. A short driveshaft connects the tranny to a divorce-mounted NP205 transfer case that uses a Ford input shaft with a Chevy case for the passenger-side drop. Driveshaft hoops keep the driveshafts in check for the front and rear axles.
Those axles consist of a Competition Engineering-fabricated Ford 9-inch in the rear and, surprisingly, the stock Dana 44 up front. How the front withstands this sort of power is beyond us, but the open differential, 3.54 gears, and small front tires help. The Dana 44 is steered with a Competition Engineering Pinto-style rack-and-pinion setup that sheds weight from the steering assembly. This wouldn't be the hot setup for a rockcrawler with big articulation, but it is perfect for drag racing. The rear paddles are much harder on parts than the front tires, but Jim fortified the 9-inch with Moser 35-spline chromoly axle shafts, Aerospace disc brakes, and a Moser nodular third member with 4.56 gears and a full spool to prevent any breakage. Yeah, the truck runs different gears front and back, but when the different front and rear tire diameters are taken into consideration, the wheels are spinning at nearly the same speed.
Body and Interior
This isn't a show truck, or even a daily-driver for that matter. The interior has been gutted and now contains an aluminum Kirkey racing seat and a Rhodus Fabrication cage with X-braced doors. The 5-inch Auto Meter Monster tach looks more at home here than in the Honda Civics in which they are usually forced to reside, and is complemented by additional Auto Meter gauges to monitor the engine's vital signs between passes. Otherwise the interior is bare, save for the Hurst shifter and wiring for the MSD 10 ignition.
Despite the all-business interior, the factory doors still open and shut and all of the body is American steel. The rear bedsides are from the factory bed, but were shorted to match the 110-inch wheelbase when the rear half of the frame was removed. Inside the bed, huge wheeltubs keep the 36x17x16 Sand Tires Unlimited Super Scooper paddles with 20 scoops from sandblasting the crowd. Behind the wheel tubs, dual Optima Yellow Top batteries sit at each corner and assist with weight balance. More weight can be added to the rear of the truck to allow Jim and Jason to race in different classes, rather than against each other. This allows the pair to split costs and be competitive for less money, which is smart business in this day and age.
Good, Bad, and What It's For This Jeep is fast on the track, and the paddles hook up hard. The NP205 seems like an odd choice given the desire to save weight, but perhaps an aluminum chain-drive case would not stand up to the power. There really is no "bad," although a truck like this is so purpose-built that you aren't going to drive it to church on Sundays anymore. When it comes to sand drags though, there are few vehicles than can keep up.
Why I Shot This Feature
Uh, did you read the part where this Jeep makes 1,687 horsepower? This Jeep makes almost as much horsepower as all of the other Jeeps I have featured combined! On top of that, I love that this truck looks so unassuming with its straight sheetmetal and plain white paint. I prefer loud, obnoxious engines to loud, obnoxious paint jobs, and Jim's J-truck delivers in spades. -Harry Wagner
Hard Facts
Vehicle: '77 J10
Engine: 401ci small-block Chevy
Transmission: Powerglide two-speed automatic
Transfer Case: Divorce-mount NP205
Suspension: Leaf springs (front); four-link (rear)
Axles: Dana 44 (front); Competition Engineering 9-inch (rear)
Wheels: 15x8 Centerline Pro Street (front), 16x16 Weld Pro Stars (rear)
Tires: 12.00-15 Sand Tires Unlimited (front); 36x17x16 Sand Tires Unlimited Super Scoopers (rear)
Built For: Beating Chevys and Fords at the sand drags


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Spring 2020 classes have resumed online.Please visit
dcccd.edu/coronavirus for additional information and to
learn how to prepare for online classes.
This article appeared in a March 2016 issue of the student newsletter.
By Marielle McGregor
I don't know about you, but I have missed many scholarship opportunities because of printer issues, missed deadlines, or lost paperwork.
Never again.
On March 1, the DCCCD Foundation will launch
myScholarships, DCCCD's new online scholarship application system. Yes, it is
completely online.
Here's how it works: You fill out
one simple (and secure) scholarship application online. This takes a few short
minutes. You are then automatically considered for multiple financial award opportunities, including scholarships based on academic excellence, financial need, leadership and achievement, to name a few.
To access myScholarships visit foundation.dcccd.edu/scholarships. The application period for Fall 2016 scholarships is
March 1 - June 1, 2016.
Insider tip: Answer the additional
supplemental questions to check your eligibility for additional scholarships. Also, check out
keyword search to explore all the scholarships in the system.
LeCroy and
Muse scholarships will
not be included in the new myScholarship online application system this spring. To apply for these scholarships, you must submit the hard-copy application forms by
April 1, 2016. You can access the print application forms for each of these scholarships by selecting the links above.
Insider tip: If you are submitting letters of recommendation with your scholarship application(s), do not wait until the last minute. Give the person recommending you adequate time to write your recommendation letter.
If you have any questions regarding myScholarship, reach out to Shad Rasco, Senior Director of Operations, at
email@example.com or 214-378-1532. You can also contact the DCCCD Foundation directly at 214-378-1531.
Happy scholarship-hunting!


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Nothing makes science come alive like seeing it happen in front of your eyes! Shows in our Live Demonstration Theaters are designed to delight and inspire visitors of all ages. From explosive reactions, to the chemistry of cooking, to the basics of biology, a live program offers the kind of science experience you can't get anywhere else!
Shows are included with general admission for visitors to the Science Center. Check the calendar for today's show schedule.
Are you an educator planning a field trip? A camp leader looking to add something special to your visit? Shows are available for group bookings Monday through Friday. Add a show to your group admission for just $2 per person! Group pricing is available for 15 or more people with an advance reservation. Talk with us about which shows are available on your selected date. Register early for best selection! To schedule a visit for your group, call 412.237.3410.
Science Stage (1st Floor)
Smash, bash and crash a program on the Science Stage to conduct a symphony, build a zoo, investigate the laws of motion, or launch a rocket.
BodyStage (3rd Floor)
Do you know what's going on inside your guts? Have you ever wondered why we have different tastes in food? In the BodyStage see shows about nutrition, food science, the systems of the body, and medical technology.
Works Theater (4th Floor)
Experience dazzling and hair-raising demonstrations in the Works Theater. Taste a frozen marshmallow or see the glow of molten metal. Our Tesla coil is a must-see attraction, offering a one-million-volt display of light and sound.


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This homemade costume for pets entered our 2012 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Shannon, the 'Doo Wop Ferret' costume creator:
This is our ferret, Thursday. He is a very outgoing ferret as you can see, and he really doesn't mind getting dressed up. Thursday is also very friendly and loves to go on outings. (Just to add..he had to be held up (Scruffed) so that he didn't relax down for the picture. He is not being held like that against his will, nor is he being hurt.)
Why did I make him a Doo Wop outfit...well...I wanted something completely different.
I hand made this costume using various types of material. The shirt was cut from one of my husbands shirts, the poodle skirt is 2 layers of regular cotton material, the poodle is felt, the leash to the poodle is ribbon, the jacket was made out of a glossy synthetic material...I added a hook and eye to the front and the bottom has a pull string to adjust the bottom of the jacket. OH and the scarf is a bit of rolled cotton material. I do not have a pattern, I just use what I can (for example the skirt was measured using a lamp shade and a pot lid)...and I usually just eye the rest.


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After Saturday's 1-0 win over New England, LA Galaxy players and coaches had plenty of reasons to feel good about their performance.
The club nabbed three points in one game, three games earlier than one year ago. Edson Buddle scored his first goal of the season after scoring just five in 2009. And the club picked up a shutout victory, carrying on the tradition of tough defending set one year ago.
Yet Galaxy coach Bruce Arena wasn't about to overlook the club's setbacks. For all the positives the Galaxy had, the club almost canceled them out with their negatives.
"We're certainly happy with the three points in the opening game," Arena said after the match. "We struggled last year to get to three points. However our performance is certainly incomplete over the 90 minutes. We were sloppy in the first 10 minutes of the second half. I thought our passing could have been better throughout the night.
Scoring goals was a question mark coming into the season, and the club seemingly had answered that question early on. Buddle scored in the sixth minute, but for all the pressure the Galaxy put on the Revolution's back line, the club never was able to add a second goal.
It's not exactly something that caught players off guard. The Galaxy won six games last year by a 1-0 score, and had opportunities in those matches to pull away and win by a second goal.
"Same thing tonight," Galaxy defender Todd Dunivant said. "We definitely dominated the game but they had a couple of chances that they could have done better with and could have changed the whole game. We've got to have that killer instinct and put the game away."
The Galaxy's defense was a bright spot once again. Omar Gonzalez and Leonardo paired together in central defense and gave away little space for New England starting forwards Kheli Dube and Zack Schilawski to maneuver in. Dube did have two chances in a span of three minutes early in the second half.
"Overall it was certainly a solid performance," Arena said. "We defended for the most part pretty well. We got a little sloppy on a couple of plays during the match ... and we were pretty sloppy in trying to finish them off with the second goal and we had our opportunities to do that in the first and second half. That part certainly was not good."
Buddle had a few chances to score that he failed to put on frame, and one late attempt was parried away by New England goalkeeper Preston Burpo. Gonzalez saw a late header also knocked away by Burpo. Also, Landon Donovan had a breakaway late in the match and tried to find Alex Cazumba, but the ball got away from the reigning MLS MVP and the late scoring chance was wasted.
Cazumba had replaced an injured Eddie Lewis and played a left midfield role he'd only started to fill in the final week of the preseason. Still, Cazumba and fellow Brazilians Leonardo and Juninho all made their MLS debuts. While each displayed some strong qualities and drew praise from their teammates, there is one area in which the South Americans could improve on significantly.
"The biggest thing is going to be the communication barrier, especially the Brazilians," said Donovan. "When you have three guys who don't speak the language, it makes things difficult. When they're able to speak the language it will make things easier for everyone."
Still, for all of the talk of a second goal that never came, the Galaxy were able to get the first one rather quickly. Donovan swung a free kick from the left side of the field into the middle of the box, and Buddle powered a header into the back of the net.
Buddle scored 15 goals in 2008 but had just five a year ago, and seemingly set himself up for a good year with his early strike.
"Being familiar with the players around me, I was comfortable and we were able to find each other much easier," Buddle said.
Bottom line, Dunivant said, was that three points after one game beats three points after four, as was the case last year.
"That game last year we probably tie, we probably get a draw out of it," he said. "This is a good start and we build on it and we've got to get a killer instinct and put teams away when we have the opportunity."


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Storemate YardStore S53 1.76m X 1.07m Colour
Price Updated as of April 09 2020
Designed to maximize capacity without consuming large areas of space. Unobstructed access makes it easy to get to the volume of items you can store in here. Ideal for storage for bikes and toys, tools, sporting equipment, camping gear… You'll be amazed, at what you can fit in here. The wide front opening and hinged roof also make it ideal for protecting the pool pump and filtration system, putting away the mower and gardening gear or storing the firewood. An everyday storage solution for the things you use every day.
Ideal for ...
Bike Storage
Pool Pump & Filtration System Cover
Garden Tools
Workshop Tools
Wheelie Bin Cover
Width x Depth 1760mm x 1070mm
Height Front / Rear 1265mm / 1480mm
Front Door Opening 980mm
Warranty 15 Years
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For Carports, Garages and Patios - delivery can take up to 3 weeks since most of these items are made to order and has longer production time frame.
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Clear space in your shed with shelves. You'll maximize storage space if you keep things organized.
There's enough room for your hoard, and you don't have to figure out how to arrange chests and boxes on your floor space.
Multi Purpose Hook Set (pack of 5)
3 Tier Shelf - 760 x 300 x 580m
Corner Shelf (Set OF 6 ) 770 x 300mm
Tool Hanging Rack
Skylight 350mm wide
Perspex Sliding Window
Ideal for semi-permanent installations. Perfect when building on non-level ground, The Floor Kit provides a sturdy base frame for your shed. Simply add plywood panels to create your floor. The Floor Kit can be secured to the ground with pegs, making it possible to relocate your shed.
If you prefer, you can create your floor by filling the Floor Kit frame with compacted road base, or use the frame as formwork for a concrete floor. If your shed is being situated on an existing timber or concrete surface, the frame can be screwed down or bolted down with masonry anchors.
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Colorado's deadliest neighborhood when it comes to guns resides within Senate District 11, a sprawling district represented by Senate President John Morse, who helped pass tougher gun laws in the state and as a result is now confronted with a possible recall election.
According to a report published Monday by the Denver-based I-NEWS Network, the Pikes Peak Park neighborhood in southeastern Colorado Springs has seen 24 gun related deaths between 2000 and 2011 — more than any neighborhood in the state. Twelve were homicides and the other 12 were suicides.
The Pikes Peak Park neighborhood is located within Senate District 11, where petitioners are gathering signatures in an effort to oust Morse after he led an effort by Democrats to pass new gun laws that, among others, limit ammunition magazines of more than 15 rounds and require universal background checks on all firearms sales and transfers.
Morse, who has said gun legislation "landed on the laps of Democrats" in the wake of mass shootings in Aurora in July and at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December, told the The Post recently, "we (Democrats) did the right thing. If making Colorado safer might cost me my political career, then so be it," Morse said. "I've seen people killed and lay there bleeding in the street. … What we did will help."


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If any body ends up with 1 extra I'd like to buy it.
It would motivate me to find my sash and add it pushing
my total to 60. I had 59 when I made Eagle and that was
during the Nixon administration HA!
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I'm always amazed when I rewatch a favorite childhood movie or television show and find the adult humor or mature subject matter hidden beneath the surface. Never did I think the same would hold true for a classic children's book, but it did after walking through "In a Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak,†a new exhibit here in town.
Last weekend, I stopped by the Main Library's Bernheim Gallery on 301 York St. to browse the exhibit on display through Feb. 24.
The library exhibit features several of the beloved characters from Sendak's 1964 Caldecott Medal winning picture book, "Where The Wild Things Are.†There are also giant, vivid panels depicting illustrations from other notable stories Sendak has written over the years.
The national traveling exhibition delves into the influence that Jewish culture and history had on Sendak as an author and illustrator, which was an influence I never would have detected reading his work in the first grade.
Did you know that Sendak was preoccupied with "shtetl†(Yiddish for "little townâ€) life growing up in Brooklyn, New York and intertwined elements of the Holocaust and the Lindbergh kidnapping into his 1993 book "We are all in the Dumps with Jack and Guyâ€?
In fact, as a child, Sendak had become intrigued by the worn black-and-white photographs of his European relatives, many of whom were murdered in concentration camps, and based several of the monstrous "wild things†in his famous storybook off of his aunts and uncles who had scared him as a kid with their cigar smoking, crooked teeth and long nose hair.
It is said that the main character, Max, in "Where the Wild Things Are†is symbolic of Sendak and his quest to explore his European ancestry and make sense of his American upbringing.
Sendak has always been interested in deriving his fantasies from reality, and that was exactly the case for his iconic book that I'm sure many children never would have imagined held a deeper meaning beneath the adventurous tale of a boy dressed in a wolf suit wandering through the land of ferocious beasts.
It was through Sendak's journey in literature that he was able to better understand his Jewish identity and family history that caused him conflict as a child battling his parents' Old World mentality in the vibrant New World of Brooklyn. Without his past and inability to truly break from it, Sendak may not have become the renowned author he is today. Nor would he have finally found a sense of happiness, which he was quoted as saying, "comes only through art … music, reading, working. That's it. And crappy television.â€
Now, who would have thought that was the real story behind one mischievous boy who travels to a land inhabited by wild things?
For more information, visit www.lfpl.org or call 502.574.1611. Contact writer Ashley Anderson at email@example.com, 502.498.2051.
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Monday through Thursday: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday and Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m.
Special attractions
A Wild, Wild Rumpus
Saturday, Jan. 28: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Come visit the Main Library for a special reading of "Where the Wild Things Are†performed by Stage One Family Theatre. Children will meet Max and one of the Wild Things and create wild crafts with the Speed Art Museum.
Jewish Ritual Objects: Religion and Art
Thursday, Feb. 16: 7 p.m.
In concurrence with the Jewish Museum in New York hosting the exhibit "An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak,†University of Louisville history professor Lee Shai Weissbach will present an illustrated exploration of how Jewish tradition has approached questions of artistic expression through the ages.


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
There are so many new alternative crypto coins launched pretty much everyday now so it is becoming harder and harder to keep track of these new launches. Not that it is worth checking out each and every one of them, or to try and manage to be ready and mine at the launch of every new coin. It is still good to check the new coin launches and mark a few that seem to offer something new and promising as this could provide you with a good chance to get some extra profit by mining at the launch with low difficulty. This is especially useful for miners that do not have a lot of mining power and want to be able to maximize their chances of getting something extra. We are saying a chance as there is also a risk associated with mining new coins that are not yet being available on any exchange, there is a possibility that some of these new coins will have a very short live and not even get listed on an exchange. So do approach these new alternative crypto coins with caution when checking them now at the Bitcointalk forum for example or any of the specialized crypto coin launch calendars listed below.
List of New Crypto Currency Launch Calendars:
– AltCoinCalendar
– CryptoLaunch
– CoinCalendar
– CoinLaunch
If we have missed some alt coin launch calendar worth mentioning please feel free to post in the comments section so we could add it to the list, but these already listed should provide you a good starting point in checking what new crypto is coming and when.


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Black-white disparities widening in U.S. breast cancer deaths
Last Updated: 2014-03-21 14:58:39 -0400 (Reuters Health)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the largest cities in the U.S., death rates from breast cancer have dropped across the board over 20 years, but far less so for black women than whites, according to a new analysis.
The widening survival gap is likely due to differences in the quality of healthcare and access to it, researchers contend, because health factors alone cannot explain the changes over two decades.
"The advancements in screening tools and treatment which occurred in the 1990's were largely available to White women, while Black women, who were more likely to be uninsured, did not gain equal access to these life-saving technologies," lead author Bijou Hunt, an epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, told Reuters Health in an email.
Past research has examined racial differences in survival for specific cancers and for cancer in general and found at least some could be explained by biology. High blood pressure, diabetes and other health problems that both worsen cancer outcomes and are more common among blacks have received some of the blame.
Black women are also more likely than whites to have aggressive breast tumors that don't respond to the most effective treatments. This basic difference in cancer genetics is another reason given for differing survival when it comes to breast cancer.
To assess changes in survival trends on a national level, Hunt and her colleagues looked at mortality rates in the largest U.S. cities at four different time points: 1990-1994, 1995-1999, 2000-2004 and 2005-2009.
They found that during the 20-year span, deaths from breast cancer fell overall - by 13 percent for black women and by 27 percent for white women. While a gap was already present in the early 1990s, it widened considerably with time.
The team's analysis, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, found that during 1990-1994, the rate of breast cancer deaths was 17 percent greater among blacks than among whites. This steadily increased to 30 percent, then to 35 percent and finally to 40 percent in the last time period they looked at.
The disparity was particularly striking in Memphis, Tennessee, where the rate of breast cancer deaths among blacks was 27 percent higher than among whites in 1990-1994 and ballooned to more than two-fold higher by 2005-2009.
In Los Angeles, the mortality rate among blacks was 24 percent higher than among whites in 1990-1994 and 71 percent higher in 2005-2009.
Wichita, Kansas, which had no significant differences in mortality rates among blacks and whites at the first time point studied, had a two-fold increased rate of deaths among blacks in 1995-1999, which fell to a 57 percent greater mortality rate among blacks by the most recent time point.
Most, but not all, of the 41 cities included in the final analysis saw an increase in racial disparities during the study period. This was not true of New York, however, the largest city included. The disparity in New York was about the same at the first and last time points examined, with an 18 to 19 percent greater mortality rate among blacks than whites, the researchers note.
Several other large cities, including Minneapolis, Miami, Portland and Las Vegas, did not have any significant differences at all in mortality rates between blacks and whites at any of the four time periods examined.
The growing gap in breast cancer deaths among blacks versus whites was largely caused by a steeper drop in breast cancer deaths among whites than among their black counterparts, Hunt and her colleagues point out.
Sixteen states experienced a greater than 20 percent decrease in the white mortality rate, but a less than 10 percent decrease in mortality among blacks, the researchers report.
"If genetics were responsible . . . we would not have seen the rates go from being nearly equal in most places at the first time point to being so much worse for Black women than for White women at the last time point," Hunt told Reuters Health.
Increased screening and treatment options among whites, coupled with both a lack of access to and lower quality of screening and treatment among blacks appear to be the more important culprits, she and her coauthors speculate in their report.
Dr. Otis W. Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, agrees with this assessment. He told Reuters Health that he gets "frustrated" when experts focus on biological differences between blacks and whites - "issues that we can't fix" - instead of logistical issues such as increasing access to care.
Brawley, a medical oncologist and epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, was not involved in the current study.
The "power" of Hunt's study, Brawley said, is the authors' ability to show different mortality curves for different cities.
"Black people in New York are not genetically different from black people in Chicago, but their outcomes are different," he said.
In Chicago, the study found, mortality rates were initially insignificant between blacks and whites in 1990-1994, but were 48 percent greater among blacks by 2005-2009.
"Most of the disparities are actually due to access to care and access to quality care," Brawley said. "This is an ethical and moral problem that we in the United States have yet to come to grips with."
Brawley added that a "pet peeve" of his is that much attention is given to screening and early diagnosis, but there is a lack of focus on increasing access to care and quality care.
"This is not new science, this is getting old science to people who deserve it because they are human beings," he said. "That is where we as a society are failing."
Individuals also have a role to play in ensuring they get proper care, he added. "Once one has insurance and has access to care, one needs to be focused and involved in one's care," Brawley said, such as asking questions and learning about the disease.
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women, after lung cancer. It is diagnosed in close to 1.3 million people around the world every year and kills 500,000.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1jblmXt Cancer Epidemiology, online March 4, 2014.
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Just last week we reported that Siri, the voice assistant found in Apple's iPhone 4S, will get support for the Chinese language next month. In addition, the report also suggested that Apple was planning to introduce support for Japanese and Russian. Today, 9to5Mac reported that watchful iPhone 4S users have noticed that Siri is now claiming to speak Japanese.
This could be evidence that Japanese support is imminent. When asked what languages it can speak, Siri responded, "I speak Japanese, English, German and French. I'm studying some new languages, too." However, the settings pane does not provide an option for Japanese.
Currently, Siri only supports English (United States, United Kingdom, and Australia), French, and German but in Apple's Siri FAQ the company promises support for additional languages. The FAQ notes that the company will add support for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, and Spanish. Support for the Chinese language is given without a doubt due to the strong growth and demand the company is seeing in the country.
It maybe possible that Siri's additional languages will be introduced at the iPad 3 launch next month.


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SSL support for awful.
This extension provides a single procedure (enable-ssl) which enables SSL support for awful.
- enable-ssl #!key certificate-file private-key-fileprocedure
Enable SSL support for awful. The following keyword parameters can be used:
- certificate-file (string)
- Path to the certificate file (PEM format).
- private-key-file (string)
- Path to the private key file (PEM format).
Usage example
(use awful-ssl spiffy) (server-port 443) (enable-ssl certificate-file: "server.crt" private-key-file: "server.key")
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One of the biggest festivals in San Diego is gearing up for one of the most star-studded events of the year.
From Sept. 26-30, the San Diego Film Festival will transform the Gaslamp into a cinematic paradise with dozens of screenings and parties. The event is welcoming more than 150 filmmakers to the event to showcase their work, and more than 100 films will be shown throughout the festival.
Not only will the event feature some of the best local films, but it will also have numerous parties with dozens of Hollywood's shining stars.
One of the leader men at the event is special guest Gus Van Sant. The director of "Good Will Hunting" fame will be honored at La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art on Sept. 27.
And a festival just isn't complete without an epic party or two. Opening night will kick off the event with a premiere at FLUXX Nightclub. Plus the downtown will turn into a hotbed of activity on the night of the "Almost Famous" Block Party outside the Gaslamp Reading Theater on Friday, Sept. 28.
With so many events throughout the festival it might be hard to pick just one -- here's our roundup of what not to miss.
More than 15,000 people are expected to attend the 5-day festival, so get your tickets early. Check out the SD Film Fest website for more information.
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Edmund Georg Hermann Landau
Born: 14 Feb 1877 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 19 Feb 1938 in Berlin, Germany
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Edmund Landau's father Leopold Landau was a gynaecologist who was both a patriotic German and someone who was politically active in support of the Jewish cause. Edmund Landau's mother, Johanna Jacoby, was from the Jacoby family of leading bankers. Edmund was born into a wealthy family who were well connected, so he grew up knowing the important people in Berlin. He was brought up in the Jewish faith and, like his father, came to be a German nationalist with Zionist beliefs. From a young age Edmund showed remarkable talents. There is a story that he was a child prodigy [3]:-
Legend has it that at the age of three, when is mother forgot her umbrella in a carriage, he replied, "It was number 354," and the umbrella was quickly re-acquired.Landau attended the French Lycée in Berlin, graduating at the age of 16 which is two years earlier than was normal. He then studied mathematics at the University of Berlin. His doctoral work there was supervised by Frobenius, and Landau received his doctorate in 1899 for a thesis on number theory. Landau was always interested in mathematical puzzles and even before he received his doctorate he had published two books on mathematical problems in chess. On 9 June 1900 he wrote a letter from Paris, where he was studying, to Hilbert giving an outline of his ideas for proving the prime ideal theorem for algebraic number fields.
He submitted this habilitation thesis in 1901, only two years after his doctorate, consisted of his work on Dirichlet series, a topic in analytic number theory. Frobenius was somewhat critical of the area that Landau worked in, and remarked at times that Landau's work would cease to become important if the Riemann hypothesis were proved. There is little doubt that Frobenius was quite wrong in his assessment of Landau's mathematical talents, but this did not affect Landau's self-confidence in any way.
Landau taught at the University of Berlin as a privatdozent from 1899 until 1909. During this period his publication list grew rapidly, so that by 1904 his publications exceeded his age of 27 and by 1909 he had nearly 70 papers in print. While at Berlin his ability to teach became clearly evident. He taught courses for beginners, which he did not have to do, and also lectured on his own speciality of number theory. In addition he gave lecture courses on the foundations of mathematics, irrational numbers, and set theory. Schappacher notes in [9] however:-
... it should also be said that he tended not to have cordial relationships with his students, being rather an aloof person.In 1909 he was appointed to an ordinary professorship at Göttingen as successor to Minkowski. He had Hilbert and Klein as colleagues at Göttingen until Klein retired in 1913. The successor to Klein was not easily found. Carathéodory came and went in less than three years while he was followed by Hecke who also left quickly in 1919. Landau worked hard to have Schur fill the chair but, against Landau's wishes, Courant was appointed. However, despite his outstanding talents as both a teacher and researcher, Landau managed to annoy many of his colleagues at Göttingen with his somewhat arrogant manner. Segal writes in [3]:-
Landau was also something of a cynical snob. The story is well known that he used to tell people who would ask for his address in Göttingen, "You'll find it easily; it's the most splendid house in the city."We give some examples of how he annoyed his colleagues. Usually it was because he privately, and often publicly, criticised their results, although one would have to say that Landau was extremely knowledgeable and was almost always mathematically correct [3]:-
Landau was a mathematician of encyclopaedic knowledge of the literature in his special areas of expertise, meticulous to a fault, and always devoted to finding the simplest possible result.After Koebe and Bieberbach had disputed in 1921 the significance of certain results each had published, Landau entered the argument the following year by writing a joint letter to the two of them in which he said that Koebe was the more correct of the two, but still not correct enough. He also published simplified proofs of some theorems of Bieberbach, and gave stronger results. Of course usually mathematicians are delighted to see others using their results to push forward, and consider it a compliment if someone publishes a new proof of their results, but it seems to be the arrogant way that Landau did such things that annoyed his colleagues. Landau also criticised proofs of theorems published by Blaschke, again saying that the proofs were unnecessarily complicated. One he claimed was trivial and another could be trivially deduced from a theorem of Mittag-Leffler. A letter which Blaschke sent to Bieberbach in 1921 ends with the sentence:-
Wouldn't you like to free Göttingen from Landau?Despite having friends who were well informed as to what the Nazis might do if they came to power, Landau failed to recognise the danger. In 1932 he was visited by a friend Fritz Rathenau who told him that if the Nazis gained control they would build concentration camps in which to put Jews. Landau is said to have replied [3]:-
In that case I should immediately reserve for myself a room with a balcony and a southern exposure.On 30 January 1933 the National Socialist party led by Hitler did come to power in Germany and Fritz Rathenau's predictions soon came true. The Civil Service Law was passed on 7 April 1933 which provided the means of removing Jewish teachers from the universities. In fact before any official work reached Göttingen from the Ministry, the Dean wrote to Landau on 28 April asking him not to give his summer lecture courses and these were given instead by Landau's assistant. Having received no further advice from the university authorities, Landau decided to give his autumn lectures as advertised. Schappacher, in [10], quotes a letter from Landau in which he described in unemotional terms what happened on the first day of lectures:-
On 2 November, about 11.15, as I wished to leave my office and go to the large lecture theatre to begin my lecture, the entrance hall was filled with about 80 to 100 students who let me pass through unhindered. In the lecture hall was one person. Clearly therefore, there was a boycott with sentries at the door who had prevented (without force) those students who wanted to work from setting foot in the lecture room.Teichmüller, as leader of the students, had organised the boycott of Landau's lectures. In fact Teichmüller went to Landau's office after the boycott and explained that it was not the work of any organised group. Landau then asked Teichmüller to put this in writing and he included it with his request to the Ministry that he be retired. Despite Teichmüller's assertions, it is believed that student members of the Sturmabteilung (Stormtroopers) organised the boycott. Landau was given permission on 19 November to work at Groningen, in the Netherlands, and the permission was later extended to allow him to remain there for the winter semester. He was officially retired on 7 February 1934, moved to Berlin and after this only lectured outside Germany, spending some time in Cambridge and in Holland. He received full pay until 1 July 1934, then a pension until his death from a heart attack. His widow continued to receive a pension but in March 1939 she was informed that her pension would be terminated if she emigrated to the United States.
What happened - and it happened with the collaboration of many who were my pupils - leads me to believe that the only consequence must be my application to become emeritus or pensioned.
Landau's main work was in analytic number theory and the distribution of primes. He gave a proof of the prime number theorem in 1903 which was considerably simpler that the ones given in 1896 by Vallée Poussin and Hadamard. One consequence of his simpler proof was that it enabled him to obtain results concerning the distribution of prime ideals in algebraic number fields. His masterpiece of 1909 was a treatise Handbuch der Lehre von der Verteilung der Primzahlen Ⓣ a two volume work giving the first systematic presentation of analytic number theory. He also wrote important works on the theory of analytic functions of a single variable. Darstellung und Begründung einiger meuerer Ergebnisse der Funktiontheorie Ⓣ [1]:-
... contains a collection of interesting and elegant theorems of the theory of analytic functions of a single variable. Landau himself discovered some of the theorems and demonstrated others in a new and simpler fashion.Schoeneberg writes [1]:-
Written with the greatest care, Landau's books are characterised by argumentation which is complete, and as simple as possible. The necessary prerequisite knowledge is provided, and the reader is led securely, step by step, to the goal.Landau wrote over 250 papers on number theory which had a major influence on the development of the subject.
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Cross-references in MacTutor
- History Topics: Pi through the ages
- Chronology: 1900 to 1910
- Chronology: 1910 to 1920
- Scientific Research Society of Zurich
- 1912 ICM - Cambridge
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Deprivation … money under the mattress might be safe, but like fixed interest, the returns are poor. Illustration: Karl HilzingerTrustees of self-managed superannuation funds have a strong preference for investing in shares, cash and fixed interest. According to the Australian Taxation Office, SMSF trustees invest 32 per cent of their money in equities and 28 per cent in cash and term deposits.
A strong weighting towards cash and fixed interest would have helped produce a good investment return in the year to June. The median return of the capital-stable funds surveyed by SuperRatings was 4.1 per cent for the year to June.
The ATO's figures are based on a survey of self-managed accounts at the end of the 2009-10 financial year.
More recent research shows not much has changed. According to the SMSF administration company Multiport, as of June 30 this year, self-managed funds had 35 per cent of their money in Australian equities, 27 per cent in cash and term deposits, and 10.5 per cent in fixed-income securities.
SuperRatings says the average asset allocation in a capital-stable super fund is 40.2 per cent fixed interest, 22.6 per cent cash, 12.1 per cent Australian shares, 10.1 per cent international shares, 9 per cent alternatives, and 6.1 per cent property.
Growth portfolios in the SuperRatings survey lost an average of 1 per cent in the year to June, while balanced funds were up an average of 0.5 per cent.
The return for capital-stable super portfolios over the past five years is an average of 3 per cent a year, compared with an average loss of 1.7 per cent a year for growth portfolios, and a loss of 0.2 per cent a year for balanced funds over the same period.
Defensive assets have produced good returns throughout the financial crisis but now investment strategists are warning that cash and fixed interest may not be the best assets to be holding in the period ahead.
The head of investment strategy at AMP Capital, Shane Oliver, says: "Throughout 2010 and into 2011, there were very attractive rates of interest being offered on bank term deposits.
"The trouble now is that the cash rate is falling as the Reserve Bank has cut rates to deal with softer than expected economic conditions. And just as term-deposit yields have fallen, so too have government bond yields."
As bond yields fell over the past 18 months, bond prices went up, producing capital gains for fixed-income investors.
Bond yields have fallen to record lows. Anyone getting into bonds now will get a yield of not much more than 3 per cent if they hold the securities to maturity. And if bond yields start to rise again, investors will be exposed to the risk of capital loss.
Oliver says investors who are looking for the defensive qualities of a fixed-income security as well as a higher yield should consider corporate credit. Investment-grade corporate bonds are yielding about 6 per cent.
Investors have had plenty to choose from in the corporate bond market. About $8 billion in subordinated notes and convertible preference shares have been issued over the past 12 months, and all of them have been listed on the ASX. The leading banks have been big issuers and so have companies such as Woolworths, Tabcorp and, most recently, Caltex.
Typical of the returns on offer in this market is an issue of Westpac subordinated notes, launched last month and closing on August 16, paying a floating rate of 2.75 per cent above the 90-day bank bill rate. With the bank bill rate about 3.5 per cent, the notes will pay more than 6 per cent.
Compared with this, the best six-month term-deposit rates on offer at the moment are about 5 per cent. Westpac's notes have a fixed maturity date of August 2022 but may be redeemed at the bank's discretion in August 2017.
The executive director of fixed-income strategy at JBWere Wealth Management, Laurie Conheady, agrees investors need to take care with their cash and fixed-income investments.
Conheady says most of the recent fixed-income returns have come from capital gains, as the price of bonds and other fixed-income securities have rallied strongly.
The yield on a 10-year Commonwealth bond has been below 3 per cent this year, reflecting strong demand for the securities. Conheady says these long-term government bond rates are at levels last seen in the 1950s.
"While a repeat of the double-digit returns on government bonds is possible, we believe it is unlikely," he says. "Even if capital values remain at current levels, the relatively low running yields associated with current inflated values point to better risk-reward opportunities elsewhere.
"We suggest investors look to floating-rate corporate bonds and better-quality hybrids as a way to improve returns and diversify portfolios."
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Brownies with salty peanuts
Autumn in really here now and sometimes I wish that I was a bear so that I could hibernate during winter. Those who know me, know that I'm not kidding. I don't know if bears eat peanuts, but I do. So I will just take another piece of these rich brownies with salty peanuts and go back to bed with it. And only when I'm finished I'll maybe reconsider to go outdoors again.
- Brownies with salty peanuts
170 gram dark chocolate (min. 60 %), chopped
150 gram butter
3 eggs
200 ml sugar (infused with vanilla)
300 ml flour
200 ml salty peanuts, roughly chopped
peanut layer:
200 ml good quality chunky peanut butter (I use Kung Markatta "American Style", an ecologic one)
50 ml icing sugar
2 tsp vanilla sugar
50 gram butter, melted
100 gram dark chocolate (min. 60 %), melted
Melt the chocolate together with the butter in the microwave. In the meanwhile beat the eggs and the sugar with an electric beater until white and fluffy. Add chocolate and butter mixture and combine. Add flour and salty peanuts. Combine. Pour the batter in a pan (around 30 cm * 30 cm) lined with greased parchment paper. Bake for 20-25 minutes in 170 degrees C. Let the brownies cool.
Combine peanut butter, icing sugar and vanilla sugar. Add melted butter and mix well. Spread evenly over the brownies. My peanut butter is very hard but if your peanut butter is runny, then reduce the amount of butter.
Pour the melted chocolate over the peanut butter layer.
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In my experience most people procrastinate for several reasons. Here are some strategies that may help deal with some of them.
- The task or project is so big it seems overwhelming. Start immediately by defining the next physical action step you need to take. Remember it needs to be a physical action such as: find, read, write, gather, print, etc. Working with next action steps, shrinks the overall task or project into smaller, less overwhelming pieces.
- The task is confusing. When confusion isn't cleared up it can lead to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness which can then lead to escapist behavior (i.e. procrastination). The best way to avoid this is to ask questions immediately. Find out who you can go to for clarification. Be honest about needing help and have the courage to ask for it.
- The task is boring and /or you just don't want to do it. First, ask yourself if the task really needs to be done, then ask, does it have to be done by you. If you have to do it, find a way to make it less boring. Try using music, TV, talk radio, an audio book, working with someone else in the room or even on the telephone; set a timer and plan a reward for when you are done.
- Perfectionism. When you feel that you have to do something perfectly you are usually setting yourself up for trouble. First, you have to change your standards. Not everything has to be an "A" job. Before you begin a task define what an "A", "B" & "C" job would look like. Focus on working towards the "C" job. If there is still time left once you've completed your task, you can take that extra time to bring it up to a "B" or even an "A" job. Next, give yourself permission to write a bad first draft just to get something on paper. Once you get started it's usually easier to keep going. Finally, limit your time. It's amazing what we can produce when we are down to the wire with a limited amount of time. Sometimes simulating a time crunch can get you moving past perfection.
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Sure, the Formula One racing experience at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas was about fast cars, loud engines and drivers battling for a championship. It was also about marching bands, flyovers, the suite life, and of course, grid girls.
Enjoy our photo gallery of grid girls from Austin. It was just another part of an entertaining weekend as Formula One triumphantly made its return to the United States for the first time since 2007.