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Shapes Brow bar started in the year 2002, when Reema Khan noticed the need and demand for threading services as she first started offering the threading services in her beauty salon, on the North Side of Chicago. Realizing the potential and the increasing acceptance of threading, Reema explored her opportunities. Armed with her threading expertise and a mission to educate people about the benefits of threading, she launched her first brow bar at a local mall in Chicago. Over the years Reema took her business to the next level by offering the threading services at many more mall locations in the years to come. Now Shapes operates nationwide with over 75 locations throughout seven states and continues its mission to create more awareness on the art of threading.
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Eyebrow threading has been around for ages, but s.h.a.p.e.s Brow Bar has been the trendsetter of brow bar concept. Having established the first brow bar offering threading services in 2003, s.h.a.p.e.s is the very first to conceptualize & create the Brow Bar concept n the US.
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Available now—an important new book!
Now available from the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History or Amazon, price: $24.95. See How to Order for more information.
Lime Kiln Legacies
The history of the lime industry in Santa Cruz County, California
Welcome to the Lime Kiln Legacies website.
Lime Kiln Legacies, published in May, 2007, traces the history of lime making in Santa Cruz County, California, from 1791 to 1946.
In the late 1800s Santa Cruz was the most important lime manufacturing area in California. Much of the lime was transported by ship 75 miles north to San Francisco where it was used to make mortar and plaster for constructing buildings.
Today, many of Santa Cruz County's historic lime kilns remain standing, and some are preserved in parks where they are popular hiking destinations (see links).


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A car once owned by The Queen is set to be auctioned for up to £30,000.
The 2001 Daimler V8 Super LWB, which was owned by the 87-year-old monarch for three years, will be going under the hammer by auction house Brooklands, in Weybridge, Surrey.
"We are not unaccustomed to selling cars for and on behalf of esteemed owners," auctioneer Stewart Banks told the Surrey Advertiser. "However, offering this Daimler takes it to a new level."
"To drive a car that was the Queen's personal Daimler is a unique experience and one that is unlikely to be repeated," he added.
While owned by Her Majesty, the car underwent some personal customisations including a special holder for the monarch's handbags.
The Queen is currently on her annual summer holiday at Balmoral in Scotland with the Duke of Edinburgh. Since the beginning of the holiday she has been joined by Prince Andrew, the Duchess of York and their two Princess daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie.
Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, have also spent time at the Scottish estate.
Last month, the reigning monarch met her third great-grandchild, Prince George, at Kensington Palace. The Queen was reportedly overjoyed at the arrival of grandson Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's first child, and celebrated the birth with champagne for all her staff.


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It's Never Too Hot for Chili! Meaty Beany Chili and Red Lentil Thai Chili recipes from Isa Does It
I know we're in the middle of a heat wave, but sometimes all you have in the house are beans and cans of tomatoes and a bunch of spices. That's what happened to me, so last night I went to my trusty Isa Does It cookbook by Isa Moskowitz and found a recipe I hadn't tried yet. I had enough of the ingredients to make my own version. Here is Isa making it:
As you know, I believe in using what you have. I used leftover lentils I had in the fridge, I cooked up some dried Adzuki beans, and since I didn't have any fresh jalapenos, I used a can of Rotel tomatoes with chilis. Of course, I didn't use the oil. Instead, I just swapped it out with vegetable broth. My husband couldn't stop eating this. He says it's the blending of the savory flavors that make it the best chili he has ever tasted!
Today, since I still haven't gone grocery shopping, I made Red Lentil Thai Chili from Isa Does it. I had made it before and knew it was fantastic, because I always date the page in the cookbook when I make it and write a few notes about what swaps I did and how we liked it. (Don't want to remake any duds!)
Isa's recipe is here: http://www.theppk.com/2010/12/red-lentil-thai-chili . I, of course, changed it. As always, I didn't use the oil. Instead I used vegetable broth. I didn't have red lentils, but I did have leftover green lentils. (How much do the colors really matter anyway?) I also was out of onions, red bell pepper, and cilantro, so I just omitted them. Instead of kidney beans, I cooked up some Adzuki beans. As a swap for lite coconut milk, I just used unsweetened soy milk with coconut extract mixed in it. Delicious!
UPDATE: Now, my husband says THIS recipe is his favorite! When I pressed him, he admitted that between the two, his favorite is the one that is in front of him at the time!


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I was a juror on the trial at Sheffield Crown Court, back in October last year of the eight men accused of a range of sexual crimes against four teenage girls.
I am sure you will recall that five were found guilty of at least one charge against them. This and other cases have recently been reported in the press and several prominent politicians and others are now commenting on the wider picture that is emerging, predominantly that the vast majority of offenders are Pakistani men.
Some background about why I feel the need to comment so fully: I was Director of Victim Support Sheffield ten years ago, having previously worked over ten years for Victim Support in North London. I am familiar with the facilities for vulnerable and intimidated witnesses and how the video-link system works and have supported several victims through giving evidence in Court. I have also provided extensive training for people in how to support victims of serious crime and this has included several police officers.
After a brief introduction by the prosecuting barrister, we were shown several video recordings detailing several hours of the victims' interviews that had taken place between 20 and 24 months previously. Some of the audio quality was very poor and we strained to hear much of it. On several occasions Court was adjourned while transcripts of the interview (available to barristers already) were prepared for us.
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Torrington's Five Points Gallery postpones ribbon cutting again as snow looms
TORRINGTON >> The Saturday night opening of Five Points Gallery, formerly ARTSPACE in Torrington, has again been postponed by the threat of snow, and will now be held on Saturday, March 2.
During an interview this week, executive director Judith McElhone shared her excitement about the transition to Five Points Gallery, which is located on 33 Main St. She said she believes the arts are one way to revitalize the town of Torrington.
"The mission of this gallery -- our goal I should say -- is to [showcase] high-caliber, professional, contemporary art and to be accessible to the public, from kids to senior citizens to collectors," McElhone said. "And that's what you'll see here."
Five Points, named for the five-way intersection where the buildign stands, became a non-profit gallery in November, still under the name ARTSPACE. McElhone, who is also a professor at Northwestern Connecticut Community College, became involved back in June 2012 when the idea for a high quality gallery in downtown Torrington blossomed.
"We want to be accessible. We want people to be able to walk in off the street and see great art. It's great for the city," she said.
The ribbon cutting ceremony and opening of the gallery under this new name will also showcase the work of Jennifer Sabella of Litchfield.
Sabella had high praise for all those involved in Five Points.
"It's just amazing how hard they work and how they've pulled together and made it such a really professional, high-end, beautiful space," Sabella said.
McElhone said Five Points has received tremendous local support, not just from the city government but from the community at large.
"It's truly an amazing cooperation between city government, private sector and people who believe in lovely arts," McElhone said.
In the gallery's interior, the brick walls have been replaced by gallery panels, and the owners are planning a new hardwood floor.
Artists both local and nationwide are encouraged to submit their portfolios to Five Points via the website: Fivepointsgallery.org. Above all, McElhone said, they are looking for strong work.
"No artists want to be shown in a space that is known for less than top quality art. And that's what we've been able to do," she said. "We have great volunteers but it's the quality of the art and the quality of the artists that agree to come to Torrington."
McElhone, who is originally from Torrington, said she is tired of people talking negatively about the city. With the help of this new gallery, in conjunction with the Torrington Downtown Revitalization project, such labels could be a thing of the past.
"We are the only city in northwestern Connecticut, so we have a different look than the surrounding area," she said. "This is a great city. It gets a bad rap. And I think it's time that stops."
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BINDING AND SCOPE DEPENDENCIES WITH 'FLOATING QUANTIFIERS' IN JAPANESE by Emi Mukai A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LINGUISTICS) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Emi Mukai
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To keep the librarian Millie happy, a library employee has agreed to do some writing. His chosen topic is transmission line theory. Part 1 is here.
Our life's within our skin,
squeeze me to my broken bones,
I'm still outside of you,
a part of your exterior,
your shared illusion.
Beyond the gates and through the door,
over my glasses and behind my eyes,
a cozy inner planet spins.
Although we do our best,
we're all imperfect on the inside:
convoluted angels, antipodean demons
and unnamed peccadilloes,
curled up on the bed or hiding
underneath the lounge.
But what if our internal landscape
is less than congruent with the world?
A purely hypothetical someone
might believe that they're adorable,
a tail-wagging puppy,
yet find their only friend's a talking clock.
At this point Millie nodded.
It's just turned midnight, but do go on.
If the mismatch with reality's severe,
if our inner world is fanciful and fragile,
transmissions will be reflected
at the interface.
To strangers in the realm beyond,
we become a mirror, all intimation
and shallow imitation,
while our caged canary thoughts
are trapped inside our skull.
You're not my friend, are you?
Are the canaries asking?
to continue
Peccaries, armadillos and the hybrid peccadillo species are often confused, so the wood ducks tell me.
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Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for research on a glowing jellyfish protein that revolutionized the ability to study disease and normal development in living organisms.
Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien shared the prize for discovering and developing green fluorescent protein, or GFP, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Researchers worldwide now use GFP to track such processes as the development of brain cells, the growth of tumors and the spread of cancer cells. It has let them study nerve cell damage from Alzheimer's disease and see how insulin-producing beta cells arise in the pancreas of a growing embryo, for example.
The academy compared the impact of GFP on science to the invention of the microscope. For the past decade, the academy said, the protein has been "a guiding star for biochemists, biologists, medical scientists and other researchers."
When exposed to ultraviolet light, the protein glows green. So it can act as a tracer to expose the movements of other, invisible proteins it is attached to as they go about their business. It can also be used to mark particular cells in a tissue and show when and where particular genes turn on and off.
Tsien developed GFP-like proteins that produced a variety of colors so that multiple proteins or cells can be followed simultaneously.
"In one spectacular experiment, researchers succeeded in tagging different nerve cells in the brain of a mouse with a kaleidoscope of colors," the Nobel citation said. The experiment was called the "brainbow."
Shimomura and a colleague found GFP in material they extracted from about 10,000 jellyfish they had recovered off the coast of the state of Washington in the United States. They reported in 1962 that it glowed bright green under ultraviolet light.
Some 30 years later, Chalfie showed that the GFP gene could make individual nerve cells in a tiny worm glow bright green. Tsien later extended the scientific palette to a variety of colors.
"This is a technology that has literally transformed medical research," said Dr. John Frangioni, an associate professor of medicine and radiology at Harvard Medical School. "For the first time, scientists could study both genes and proteins in living cells and in living animals."
Shimomura, 80, works at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and the Boston University Medical School.
Chalfie, 61, is a professor at Columbia University in New York, while Tsien, 56, is a professor at the University of California, San Diego.
The trio will split the $1.4 million award.
Chalfie said he slept through the Nobel committee's phone calls early Wednesday and only found out about the prize when he checked the Nobel Web site to see who had won.
"It's not something out of the blue, but you never know when it's going to come or if it's going to come so it's always a big surprise when it actually happens," Chalfie said in New York.
Speaking to reporters by telephone from California, Tsien said he was surprised to receive the award.
"There had been some rumors, but from sources whose reliability was questionable," said Tsien, who also is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
In a news release issued by his university, Tsien said he had set his sights on imaging and treating cancer.
"I've always wanted to do something clinically relevant in my career, if possible, and cancer is the ultimate challenge," he said.
Shimomura told Japanese broadcaster NHK that he, too, was surprised, "because I was rumored as a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, but not in chemistry."
Gunnar von Heijne, the chairman of the chemistry prize committee, demonstrated the award-winning research to reporters by shining ultraviolet light on a tube with E. coli bacteria containing GFP. The tube glowed in a green fluorescent light.
Von Heijne said that kind of experiment "gets scientists' hearts beating three times faster than normal."
The winners of the Nobel Prizes in medicine and physics were presented earlier this week. The prizes for literature, peace and economics are due to be announced Thursday, Friday and Monday.
So far, three Americans, three Japanese, two French and one German researcher have won Nobel Prizes this year.
The awards include the money, a diploma and an invitation to the prize ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.


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The first cut is the deepest.
Next to "extreme" and "ops," the most overused adjective in a game title has
to be "revolution." Revolution this, revolution that. Apparently, the industry
is in a constant state of rebellion. Pssst…game publishers…find
a new word already.
Still, the first Karaoke Revolution did
in fact live up to its somewhat revolting moniker. By coupling a smooth interface
and style with one of the most primal skills – the ability to sing – it managed
to become a rare crossover title appealing to gamers and non-gamers alike. But
hard to up the ante on that kind of innovation; thus, Karaoke
Revolution Volume 2 simply offers more of what made the original a
success. It's no longer groundbreaking,
but it's still effective.
There are a few new modes this time around. Medley, for instance, lets you select
a series of songs and forces you to belt "em out in quick procession. A new Career mode is here too, which is the main way to unlock the game's new characters, environments and animations. A Quick Play mode lets you jump right in and play without having to sort through menus.
The game utilizes a USB mic, although up until now the options have exclusively
been headsets. The fine folks at Logitech have remedied that by releasing a
standard microphone, so switching players is no longer such a hassle.
But clearly the most important aspect of Volume 2 is the new song list. Per the individual licensing deals, some include the original vocals, while others use a competent cover. Hey, it's better than real karaoke, where you invariably wind up singing to a video of a sad girl walking through a garden or something.
The song list is a bit scattered, featuring everything from bubble-gum pop (Britney's ""Baby One More Time"; Christina's "Genie in a Bottle") to classic rock (Steve Miller's "The Joker"; Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild") to old and new school R&B (Boyz II Men's "I'll Make Love To You"; Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity"). The list might seem a bit scattered, and if you're not a karaoke pro already, it's certainly daunting.
I think the eclectic list is an improvement over the original. There are at least
one or two songs for just about everyone. Despite an abundance of flavor of the
month tunes (which do, in fact, have good reason to be here), there are still
enough karaoke classics for older music fans to enjoy. Rock out all night long
with KISS, let the kids hit it one more time with Britney, and then bust out
a High School Prom ballad, Boyz II Men style. There's something for everyone,
unless your choice in music is David
Hasselhoff or William Shatner.
As before, the game registers the pitch of your voice to calculate your score, which mean you can very well sing total nonsense instead of real words, but if your pitch is correct, it will pass. It's an understandable allowance; if the game actually followed pronunciation, I imagine it would feel too demanding.
Visually, the game does a decent job of giving you a nice range of environments
and characters to keep things lively and colorful. It's really just a backdrop for the audio, anyway.
original Karaoke
Revolution promised expansion packs, but nothing ever turned up. I guess
the idea was scrapped since more money could be made by wringing out new volumes
instead. If this game was an expansion pack that only included the song list,
for half as much money, I'd be twice as happy. Aside from the updated song list,
the new additions are pretty thin, and it's also a little annoying that you can't
use songs from the original game in this sequel.
At least it's cheaper
than a night out with friends at a real karaoke parlor, though.
And at the end of the day, this is still a great party game. I'd say a good
chunk of Karaoke Revolution's
buyers are fellow dweebs aching to convert a significant other to video games,
and if that's the case, more power to yah! It's
a gateway game and the perfect hook for those American
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In true Apple fashion, Steve Jobs and co. annually ditch the biggest electronics trade show in the world in favor of their own party, Macworld. The strategy seems to be working out just fine, because today most everyone here in Vegas is talking about the much-ballyhooed and now bona fide iPhone, and with good reason: This phone is hot.
As expected, it's a phone. It's a video iPod. It's an Internet device. It's a mobile OS X computer. And it's beautiful. The sleek phone is all screen, featuring an adaptable touch-based interface that, if anything like the iPod's ingenious scroll-wheel, promises to change the way people control their mobile devices. And beyond the interface, the iPhone packs in practically every high-end mobile phone feature and more: Wi-Fi, EDGE data capabilities (via Cingular, Apple's exclusive partner through 2009), full iTunes integration including CoverFlow, free push email from Yahoo, a Google Maps application, and, well, the list keeps going.
Playing second fiddle is Apple TV, the living room media box announced last September which also debuted today. But it's clearly the iPhone's day in San Francisco. And judging by the amount of people here in the press room watching Steve Jobs's keynote on their laptops, it's the iPhone's day in Las Vegas, too. —John Mahoney


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Call us a little strange (it wouldn't be the first time), but we think it is pretty hard to make a 1959 Dodge W100 Power Wagon any cooler than they were when they left the factory. The combination of the Power Wagon's Forward Look styling and rugged functionality make them a nearly perfect old truck in our eyes—even in showroom stock condition.
Having said that, it seems the builder of this Power Wagon managed the near-impossible when they significantly upped the cool factor of this old Dodge by adding a newer Cummins Diesel and an updated five speed manual transmission. Perhaps even more amazing is the fact someone is willing to part with this ultra cool old truck—it's currently listed for sale on Ebay.
Although "Power Giant" era Dodge trucks—made between 1957 and 1960—obviously never came with a 4BT Cummins Diesel or a five speed Ford ZF transmission, after one look at this truck we certainly wish they had. The combination of a more modern driveline and this classic Power Wagon result in a great looking unique truck that can manage an impressive 23 MPG. We imagine this is at least double what the W100 could have managed with its optional factory "Power Giant" 205 horsepower 318ci V8.
Aside from a few Cummins emblems and the Turbo Diesel script on the tailgate (perhaps the only thing we don't like about this truck) you'd never guess this Power Wagon was anything else than what it appears to be—a nicely restored old truck. That is of course until you hear the truck start and the decidedly non gas powered sound of the engine reveals this Power Wagons unique secret.
Not surprisingly, we aren't alone in our enthusiasm for this interesting old Dodge—although the truck hasn't met reserve bidding is up to $15,650 with over a day left on the auction. Judging by the amount of interest and how cool this truck is, we would guess if the reserve is at all reasonable this unique Power Wagon will find a lucky new owner by the end of the weekend.


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Sorting out a surprising college basketball season
- Kentucky and North Carolina among the blue bloods that have lots of work to do
- Defense will dictate where Louisville lands in March
- Ben Howland has UCLA pick up the tempo and pick up a nine-game winning streak
Kentucky on the bubble? Wisconsin alone in the Big Ten lead? The RPI power ratings being flooded by that brute of a basketball conference ... the Mountain West?
And did the hottest team in the Pac-12 really once lose to Cal Poly?
Just what's going on out there?
In two months the NCAA will announce the cast for its little tournament, and much must be sorted between now and then. March Madness has to beware January judgments.
For instance, we need to find out ...
- How much trouble the blue bloods might truly be facing.
Kentucky is 64th in one latest RPI ranking, nine spots behind North Dakota State. John Calipari is to playing freshmen as McDonald's is to selling cheeseburgers, but getting the kids to gel this year is obviously going a tad slowly. He's been starting four, and that hasn't happened in Lexington since 1944.
"In the last seven, eight years, I have coached teams that absolutely womped on people,'' Calipari told reporters after beating Tennessee on Tuesday. ``And this ain't one of them.''
Meanwhile, North Carolina is seventh in the early Atlantic Coast Conference standings and 47th in the RPI -- eight spots behind Bucknell.
But they'll both be there at the end, right? Right?
- How long Louisville plans on staying No. 1.
One of the great anomalies of this sport, given the Cardinals' lush tradition, is this being only the second week they have ever been at the top of the polls. Defense is driving the surge; nearly 33% of Louisville's points have come off turnovers. The ranking might one day go, but the defense shouldn't.
Here's another Cardinal stat that has nothing to do with getting to No. 1 – or maybe it does. The team GPA for the fall semester was 3.41.
- What's up with Indiana.
The preseason No. 1 Hoosiers have moments when they are the Indiana Juggernauts. But they were also beaten by a Butler walk-on, nearly blew a 23-point lead at home to Minnesota, and lost for the fifth consecutive time in Bloomington to Wisconsin — something that had not happened against any team since 1923.
The Hoosiers are plenty good, but have questions to answer.
- When Duke gets do-it-all forward Ryan Kelly back. And what happens until then.
Kelly hurt his foot last season and missed the NCAA tournament. Duke lost its first game to Lehigh. He was injured again last week. Duke lost its No. 1 ranking at North Carolina State. We might have spotted a trend.
"We have to be hungry, clip coupons, look for sales, '' Mike Krzyzewski told the Duke website about life without Kelly. "We have to play poor. We've been accustomed to playing rich, and rich is over.''
- How the new up-tempo style continues to work at UCLA.
The Bruins' faithful were ready to stir fry Ben Howland when UCLA lost to Cal Poly. Another lousy season for a deteriorating program. Then Josh Smith and Tyler Lamb quit, and it was like addition by subtraction. The Bruins have won nine in a row, using four freshmen and three North Carolina transfers, averaging 78.5 points as Howland — who always preferred his offense straight vanilla — has gone tutti frutti and loosened the shackles.
- How low it goes for Texas.
Talk about enigmas. Texas leads the nation in field goal shooting defense, and shouldn't that mean something? Not when you're 304th in the nation in field goal shooting. Hence, 0-3 in the Big 12 and 8-8 overall. Imagine what the shooting percentage would be if the Longhorns could guard themselves.
- Who is the fairest of them all among the giant-killers.
Butler and Gonzaga meet Saturday, and the fact both were willing to play at this stage of the season is a shining example to all the big-boy schools with pastry schedules.
Then there's the band of thieves at Virginia Commonwealth with their havoc defense, leading the nation with more than 13 steals a game.
- Which leagues have the goods, and which don't
We knew the Big Ten was stacked, but really. Indiana, Michigan, Ohio State and Michigan State all began the season ranked in the top 14, but it's Wisconsin leading at the moment and Minnesota with the best RPI. The Gophers haven't won an NCAA tournament game since 1997.
One look at how few Southeastern Conference teams are mentioned glowingly and you know it's not football season anymore. Meanwhile, when did the Mountain West become basketball's Swiss Alps? MWC teams have won 79.2% of their non-conference games, and New Mexico, Boise State, Wyoming, UNLV and San Diego State are all making noise the selection committee can hear. The league's most recent RPI had it only behind the Big Ten.
San Diego State is the nation's master at streaks. The Aztecs have won six consecutive overtime games, 32 in a row against schools from the state of California (that means you, UCLA) and 84 consecutive games when they had the lead with five minutes to go.
That might not mean much in March, but it's certainly more impressive at the moment than Kentucky's RPI.


text: How do you integrate a "Pain Beam"? On The Editor's Desk By Martha Entwistle Updated Tue December 11, 2007 In one of those stories that would seem like an April Fool's prank if it wasn't so easy to believe, Wired has a story today about the new "pain beam," which uses microwaves to zap people and cause their flesh to scream out with burning pain. They're talking about using it on the battlefield, to quell riots, and, you know, for residential home security. Check the story's lead: Burglars break into an apartment, hoping to pick up some expensive electronics or jewelry. But they're out again, empty-handed, within seconds, howling with pain and surprise. They've been driven back by waves of intolerable heat: Entering the apartment is like stepping into a furnace. It's the Active Denial System, or ADS, at work, the ultimate in home protection ... among other uses. Yeah, well, better hope your teenager doesn't try to sneak into the house in the middle of the night. He'd get some surprise! And just think what happens when you key in the wrong passcode! Yizz-ow! Here's how Raytheon sees using it in commercial/industrial settings: In one implementation, beam projectors are "located on the ceiling, at an angle, behind wall panels," and a series of metallic reflectors, also concealed, ensure that the beam covers the whole room. "In some embodiments, the energy may be directed to protect an item at one or more particular locations," the patent reads. "In these embodiments, systems may be used to guard a valuable item such as jewelry, weapons, or works or art. Luckily, these things still cost millions of dollars. I'm not sure I'm ready for residential pain beams.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say an east Georgia man was killed when a tree fell on the tractor he was driving.
The Augusta Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/19WgezK) that the accident happened Saturday in Columbia County.
Columbia County Deputy Coroner Harriett Garrison said 77-year-old Jeff Cash was using a Bush Hog when a rotting tree fell on top of the tractor.
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Parking buses under WTC has to be one of the worst ideas in recorded history.
The Vehicle Security Center will most likely enter from The Deutsche Bank site, and there will be parking levels beneath 2, 3, and 4, 1 line box, under the PAC, but nowhere near 1WTC. They have already demolished the slurry wall in the southern portion of the site to make way for rebar work for the levels.
Parking buses under WTC has to be one of the worst ideas in recorded history.
Or keep the buses in Port Authority (where they belong) and have everybody take the E train to their final destination.
there use to be a colored schematic of the VSC and lower parking area on the WTC site.
This is from October 2008; it looks like the main subterranean VSC thoroughfare for buses & vehicles will run just to the east of the subway line:
World Trade Center Report: A Roadmap Forward [pdf]
The efforts of the past three months have produced the following results, which are critical to getting this rebuilding program on track:
4. A series of agreements that will give the Port Authority greater control over delivery of the Vehicle Security Center, which will serve as a key access point to all of the commercial development on the WTC site.
These agreements include: settling a seven-year old land claim that delayed the VSCs construction ; acquiring full control over the VSCs design, procurement and construction based on the FTAs tentative agreement, subject to your requesting such action, to reallocate federal funding from the VSC to the Hub, thus removing a layer of federal requirements off of the project; and a police and security agreement with the City of New York for the World Trade Center area that will give greater certainty over how the VSC will interact with the rest of the sites security plan.
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Vehicle Security Center
Target Date: 1Q 2012
Probabilistic Date: 3Q 2012
Budget Estimate: $633 Million
... The existing station must be rebuilt anyway because it sits on the northern end of where Greenwich Street will be built and is on the future site of the Performing Arts Center, as well as on one of the entrances to the Vehicle Security Center.
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Construction Sequencing and Funding of the Vehicular Security Center
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Land Rights Claim
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Construction Sequencing and Funding of the Vehicle Security Center (P. 32)
The World Trade Center Vehicle Security Center and Tour Bus Parking Facility (VSC) will provide as part of the comprehensive WTC area police and security plan for screening of buses, trucks, and cars entering the WTC site and its facilities (see Graphic 18).
Graphic 18 (P. 66):
cheesecake: Thanks for the diagram (you posted while I was putting together my post above) ...
Given the security required it's ridiculous to go to all this expense and trouble to accommodate busses underground.
Every bus will have to be checked as they enter the parking area. And then it seems each individual passenger will have to be thoroughly searched when they want to get back on board the bus (just in case). This will be like the worst airport screening imaginable. The time wasted in travel will be huge.
As far as I'm concerned, the bus idea should be scrapped. A tourist/anyone can simply hop on the subway and arrive at or near the site. Why not have them walk through the grand oculus on the way to the memorial instead of shipping them in on a cruddy bus? Hmmmm?
Honestly, Aunt Tillie might have to sit next to a person of color/imagined gang member for three minutes on the train which could mar her Ground Zero Experience. Catering to the b&t mentality in this situation is insane.
nice job,, i was thinking of the pg 66 graphic 18 that Lofter1 posted.. yours is informative too.
i think ultimately most people will come in via the PATH trains with the VSC largely used by building deliveries.
i'd much rather emerge from teh PATH hall than that subterreanean level 10 security situation.
Catering to fears of outsiders by allowing a segregated and sheltered entry into downtown is stupidity. If folks want to come and experience NYC, and understand where and who we are -- and very possibly begin to really comprehend why some felt the need to destroy us -- then those visitors should rub up against the agglomeration [ ] that is NYC.
The entire WTC parking garage can only fit about 80 buses, which will not accommodate the thousands of tourists arriving there every day. They said they will use the Red Bull Arena's parking lot in Harrison, NJ, which has more than enough parking space, and then tourists can take a $1.75 trip on the PATH into the WTC. No screening required.
Besides, the sublevels of Silverstein's towers are made of reinforced concrete and steel, and with the bases of the towers having so much retail it would make sense to have the parking garage connected to the mall, as all malls do.
Even without buses, there still would be a VSC for truck access to all the sub-level loading docks.


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Recording G.729 Prompts for Cisco Unified IP IVR
Options for Recording Prompts
Self-Recording Using Cisco Unified Contact Center Express
Self-Recording Using Windows Applications
Prompt Conversion Options Using Cisco Unified Communications Manager
1. Open the C:\Program Files\Cisco\MOH\DropMOHAudioSourceFilesHere folder on Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
2. Some customers report using the MOH Audio Source page in Cisco Unified Communications Manager to (temporarily) add these files as MOH Audio Source. These MOH Audio Sources are deleted after clearing them out of the Cisco Unified Communications Manager configuration.
3. Upload the prompt(s) to the Cisco Unified Contact Center Express server using the newly created file. The prompt(s) will appear as <originalFileName>_g729.wav. You can find the files in the C:\Program Files\Cisco\MOH folder. Use Cisco Unified Communications Manager online documentation: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_documentation_roadmaps_list.html for more information.
1. Log into Cisco Unified Communications Manger Administration.
2. Under Media Resources-> Music On Hold Audio Source, upload the <originalFileName>.wav file and save it. This process generates the G.729 format.
3. Log in using the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol with the Cisco Unified OS Administration username and password to access the command-line interface.
4. Execute the command file get activelog mohprep/<originalFileName>.g729.wav and specify the Secure FTP (SFTP) server details to fetch this file.
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Appendix: Installing Voice Prompts
• The G.711 codec is in the public domain and is present in every Microsoft Windows installation. In contrast, the G.729 codec has intellectual property rights and is not freely available; you must purchase it for commercial use. As a result, even some professional recording studios may not be able to provide prompts using G.729.
• The problem of the prompt quality between G.711 and G.729 is subjective, whereas the costs vs. benefits of using one standard over the other are more obvious. For example, G.711 provides higher-quality prompts, but it requires more bandwidth, adding to the cost of using them. If you have bandwidth constraints, G.729, which is a high-compression codec, is more suitable, but remember that G.729 will have less "quality" than G.711, and fewer recording and playback options are available.
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Guan's impressive DIY project can reach speeds of 15-20 mph. To me that suggests a helmet, but maybe that's Guan's second project. Who am I to tell a genius what to do with the invaluable brains inside his head? [MAKE]


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