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A couple of months ago, we got a whole bunch of new stencils in our shop. I got to work right away playing around with them (it's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it!) Over the next few weeks, I'll show you what I learned.
I probably shouldn't start with my favorite– I should probably save it till last– but I can't help it. I love these. They are done with the Mini Spring Garden stencils. Which really aren't all that "mini", by the way. They are made by a company who is used to doing large cake stencils, so they call most of the cookie stencils "mini". They are a great cookie size.
There are a few ways to use stencils. One is the traditional way that they were probably made for. You can see Mike show you how to do that here. (It was his video debut. I think he should do the rest from now on… :D)
Another way to use stencils is to use them as a template. I really like using them this way because it's easier to get lots of colors on there. Sometimes it's pretty tricky to get multiple colors using the traditional stencil method.
I made the four rectangle cookies without taking any step-by-step pictures, because I'm forgetful like that. So I had to go back and do the tutorial on an egg cookie that I had sitting around. But you'll get the idea.
First you'll need to bake and glaze (or outline and fill in) your cookies. I used the largest rectangle from the rectangle cutter set. Let them dry completely.
You'll need some edible markers. I like the Americolor Gourmet Writer 10-color set. Choose marker colors that match the color of frosting you're going to use. For this one, I was making red tulips with green leaves, so I used the red and green markers.
Use the template to outline each section.
Finish all of your outlining during this step. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until the first part dries before you can replace the stencil to outline the next section. I know that's just common sense, but I think it bears mentioning since I may or may not have forgotten to do that on one of these cookies.
So here's what your outlined design will look like:
You'll probably notice that there are some little blotchy spots. Sometimes that happens. Not all the time, but sometimes. Why? I don't know. But don't worry about it if it happens to you. You'll be piping over it anyway.
Next, you'll want to have some runny-consistency frosting. Meringue Powder Buttercream is what I used here (watered down a little bit so that it is pretty soft), but you could also use Royal Icing or Corn Syrup Glaze. Just use what you're comfortable with.
Outline each little section with your frosting using a small tip. I used a #1 here.
You'll want to stay just barely inside your marker guidelines, because when you fill in there will be a tiny bit of spreading.
While outlines are still wet, go back and fill in using the same frosting and tip. After I fill in, I use a boo-boo stick to even out the frosting and to pull out sharper corners and tips.
Continue on with all colors.
Try to get your frosting colors the same consistency. My green was a little bit thicker than my red, which is why the tulips look more smooth than the leaves. But hey, it adds texture. Yeah. That's it.
Then you can add a cute border to the cookie.
They actually make pretty cute Easter eggs.
Here they are on the original rectangles that I did:
These were really fast and easy, and I loved how they turned out. It makes me think of spring… which is still pretty elusive here in Idaho.
So today I'm giving away a set of the Mini Spring Garden Stencils
and the 10-color pack of Americolor Gourmet Writers
To THREE winners. I'm tired of only having one winner. So just comment on this post by midnight on Wednesday, April 20th, and I'll choose three winners using random.org. Good luck!


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Battling to claim a piece of the growing tablet audience and to succeed in its retail rivalry with Apple, Amazon clearly needed to produce a tablet with a larger display to compete with the iPad. The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9, with a nearly 9-inch display, is the company's answer to that challenge. Making the proposition even sweeter is the tablet's availability in a Wi-Fi-only version ($299 for 16GB, $369 for 32GB) and a 4G LTE Wireless version ($499 for 32GB, $599 for 64GB). The 4G incarnation is especially compelling given its price and connectivity: It's the least-expensive large-screen 4G-equipped tablet on the market. Even so, there's no escaping the fact that you're buying into Amazon's ecosystem and way of doing things, and that could be a deal breaker for some people.
(Note: All prices include Amazon's advertising "offers" on the lock screen. To dump these marketing pitches, you'll have to ante up another $15.)
As with the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD, Amazon's new tablet is largely defined by—and differentiated by—its tight integration with Amazon's retail and Web services. Both tablets use a customized version of Android 4.0, providing an environment that's not quite as hand-holding protective as Apple's walled garden, but is definitely not a window to the open frontier of ordinary Android. Amazon supports only a subset of the greater Android app universe, and it offers limited file-handling abilities. Offsetting those restrictions is the clean, friendly interface, which appeals most to the casual tablet newcomer who values the type of content Amazon offers—movies, TV shows, books, and music—above all else.
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 has the same distinctive physical-design traits as its smaller sibling does, just in a bigger package. A large bezel, with rounded corners and curved edges, surrounds the screen. The tablet also sports a smooth, soft-touch back, with a decorative plastic accent running along the horizontal edges, and with dual-driver, rear-firing speakers mounted on either side. The buttons have identical placement as on the 7-inch tablet, sitting along the upper-right side when you hold the device horizontally—and they suffer from the same flat design that makes them hard to find by touch.
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 feels solidly constructed; it's like a tank, both in its design and its weight. This tablet's hefty feel is one of several disappointments, however. It's the first of a new class of 9-inch tablets (the Barnes & Noble Nook HD+ being another entry in the category), but it's also one of the heaviest models, at 1.25 pounds. Granted, that's noticeably and blissfully lighter than the 9.7-inch iPad is at 1.44 pounds; but the 10.1-inch Windows-based Asus VivoTab RT weighs 1.19 pounds, and the 9-inch Nook HD+ weighs 1.14 pounds.
When it comes to size and weight, tablets with 8.9-inch displays have the potential to hit the sweet spot. I first noticed this last year, when Samsung released its Galaxy Tab 8.9, one of just two tablets to ship at this oddball size until the new wave of competitors hit this season. The difference was in the weight: Samsung's 8.9-inch tablet was noticeably lighter than any of today's options, weighing just 1 pound. It also had a trimmer chassis, by nearly half an inch in the length and more than a quarter of an inch in the width. In contrast, however, the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 measures 9.45 by 6.46 by 0.35 inches and feels clunky and awkward to hold. Perhaps the balance of the components makes it feel heavier than it is, or maybe the perception holds because the display is smaller compared with the screens on some similar-weight 10.1-inch tablets.
At the bottom edge of the display sit a Mini HDMI connection and a Micro-USB port. The latter supports data transfers as well as charging. Amazon doesn't include a power brick; that's an extra $20 cost (and, regrettably, it requires more space than its small footprint belies, since the USB cable attaches on the side instead of on the top of the brick). With Micro HDMI, at least, you don't have to buy a pricey proprietary adapter (cables range in price from $10 to $30).
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9's display has a lot going for it. At a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels, the IPS display offers a pixel density of 254 pixels per inch, about the same as on the Nook HD+ and just 10 ppi less than the Apple iPad's Retina display.
As on the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD, Amazon uses optical bonding on the 8.9 to mitigate glare and to produce clearer text and better colors. And as on other tablets with bonded displays—including the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD, the Barnes & Noble Nook HD, the Acer Iconia Tab A700, the Toshiba Excite 7.7, and the Google Nexus 7—the process eliminates the pesky air gap that causes greater reflectivity and reduced contrast.
In side-by-side tests, the display on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 yielded mixed results. I prefer the color reproduction on the Nexus 7, and the detail of the Nexus 10: On both of those competing tablets, blacks are deeper, whites are whiter, and images look sharper than on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9. Some of that deficiency may be due to the Kindle Fire HD's software (more on that later). Text reproduction is good; with the tablet's initial release software, however, I saw more pixelation in text than I expected given the display's high pixel density.
The experience of working with a larger display is dependent on the apps that you use, and how optimized they are. Some of the apps that I tried looked positively dull, as if they were standard-definition broadcasts on a 1080p HDTV. Others looked better, more akin to 720p on a full 1080p TV. Even some of the apps that Amazon called out produced a mixed experience, which makes me worry that one of the challenges for consumers will be finding apps that truly take advantage of the display's resolution.
The 4G LTE and Wi-Fi versions of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 each use a 1.5GHz Texas Instruments OMAP4470 processor. In our benchmark tests, we found significant improvement over the OMAP4460 in the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD. On processor benchmarks such as AndEBench and Geekbench, the 8.9 performed better by about 20 to 25 percent. The difference was even more pronounced on tests such as GLBenchmark 2.5.1 Egypt HD Offscreen, in which the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 was substantially better, posting nearly double the frame rates of the 7-inch tablet (12.0 frames per second to 6.1 fps). On Egypt Classic Offscreen, the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 produced a rate of 38 fps, more than double that of the Kindle Fire HD 7-inch, and the same as the rate of the Nvidia Tegra 3-based Asus Transformer Pad Infinity. On top of that, the 8.9 bested the 7-incher on our webpage load tests, doing about 10 percent better on Futuremark's Peacekeeper HTML5 test and about double that on the SunSpider test (there, the 8.9's score nearly matched that of the Apple iPad mini).
Oddly, though, in my hands-on trials, the 8.9-inch tablet was a bit sluggish to respond on occasion. Some graphics were jerky and not as smooth as on the Fire HD 7-inch. In addition, Amazon says the battery should last for about 10 hours, but I found that the tablet drained well faster than that during my casual use. (Our lab tests for battery life are still pending.)
Amazon equips the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD with Dolby Digital Plus audio, but I have to say that this feature was lost over the 8.9's surprisingly middling speakers. Loudness levels were sufficient, and some tracks sounded good (and, at times, about on a par with what I heard piped out of the Google Nexus 10). But when I played the 8.9 side by side with its 7-inch sibling, the 8.9's audio (as delivered through the stereo speakers) sounded thin and tinny next to the more well-rounded audio of the 7-inch model. I liked the audio through headphones, but I can't say that I heard huge differences in the audio output.
This is the second tablet to ship with Dolby Digital Plus audio, though Amazon technically doesn't have a monopoly. Until you hear the difference for yourself, with an array of content, it's hard to appreciate what Dolby Digital Plus—and good speakers—can do. Dolby's new mobile platform, which brings the audio format introduced with Blu-ray to tablets, proves most effective on content that is in need of a fix to even out the frequency response. For example, on the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD, I could hear a bigger difference in a game soundtrack than on the Nexus 7. The same happened with music tracks from Lady Gaga, Owl City, and Mary Black; with Dolby Digital Plus turned on, I heard instruments and strains of music that were not evident when the feature was turned off (it's on by default). But an R.E.M. track didn't benefit as much, simply because (as Dolby representatives said upon hearing the track) it didn't need much help to begin with.
HD movie playback produces mixed results as well. Given the display's high resolution, I was disappointed to see that Amazon's streaming video service still exhibited artifacts in my use on several Wi-Fi networks. Amazon says that it streams HD purchases at the highest bit rate your network can handle, up to 6 mbps at 720p; that arrangement may account for my experience, but without a doubt I preferred the quality of downloaded video over that of streamed video. And my disappointment wasn't just limited to Amazon video: I played video on Hulu Plus, and was surprised by how uninspiring the video looked. By comparison, Hulu had wowed me on the smaller Barnes & Noble Nook HD.
Amazon continues to make it easy for you to store content in the cloud, as well as to move content from the cloud to your device. Nonetheless, if you plan to have lots of high-definition material, I suggest going with the 32GB version, since the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 has no memory card expansion slot.
Like the 7-inch version, the 8.9-inch model has a front-facing 720p camera for video chat, and also offers Bluetooth. The 8.9 model with 4G LTE adds GPS, so you can use it with social media and mapping apps—but no such apps come preinstalled to jump-start your use of the GPS itself. (You'd be forgiven for not realizing GPS was even part of the 4G version because of this omission.) Amazon says its Wi-Fi radio's design boosts performance significantly, but as with the Kindle Fire HD 7-inch, I noticed no particular benefit in my casual use.
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 continues to lack what are often considered standard inclusions for a tablet. For instance, it has no rear camera (to be fair, the Nexus 7 lacks one as well, but the Nexus 10 doesn't), and GPS functionality is absent from the Wi-Fi-only models. The omission of such features probably would be acceptable if Amazon were aiming this model only at the value market—but Amazon claims that this tablet, like its smaller sibling, is the best tablet at any price. Maybe not.
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Celebrating over 90 years of service, Citrus College is located in Glendora in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, approximately twenty-five miles northeast of metropolitan Los Angeles. The college has the distinction of being the oldest community college in Los Angeles County and the fifth oldest in the state.
Citrus College was founded in 1915 under the leadership of Dr. Floyd S. Hayden, who helped bring the community college movement to California. From 1915 to 1961, the college was operated by the Citrus Union High School District.
In July 1961, the Citrus Community College District was created to include the Azusa and Glendora unified school districts. In 1967, the district expanded to include the Claremont, Duarte and Monrovia school districts.
Today, Citrus College occupies a 104-acre campus. The college is currently experiencing a major facilities expansion project that will change the look of the campus. The college enrolled 27 students in 1915 and currently the college serves more than 11,000 students.
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NEW YORK -- Scissors, blow dryers, bobby pins -- they're as much a part of the Westminster Dog show as commands, crates and treats.
Take Sophie, for example. With perfectly trimmed pompoms and fluffed out fur, she's the very essence of Poodle pulchritude.
What Westminster won't tolerate, though, are PEDs -- performance-enhanced dogs.
That means no tattooing a boxer's nose to make it more black, no braces for a pointer to straighten its teeth, no removing a basset hound's inner eyelid to improve its appearance.
"It goes against the spirit of showing dogs in their appropriate state," Westminster President Sean McCarthy said Monday, the opening of the two-day show.
Cosmetic surgery isn't permitted, either, along with steroids. Yet detecting illegal drugs is virtually impossible while a dog has its few minutes in the ring.
"Our judges are not all veterinarians," longtime Westminster television host and breeder David Frei said. "They can't tell if a dog is on greenies."
There were 2,721 entries this year, though some missed out after getting stranded by the recent blizzard that hit the Northeast. The 137th Westminster features dogs in 187 breeds and varieties with a pair of newcomers, the treeing Walker coonhound and the Russell terrier.
The herding, toy, nonsporting and hound group winners were to be chosen Monday night. The top working, sporting and terriers come Tuesday, and judge Michael Dougherty was set to pick the best in show shortly before 11 p.m. at Madison Square Garden on the USA Network.
A Doberman playfully called Fifi and big-winning wire fox terrier called Sky are among the favorites to walk off with the prized silver bowl. A highly ranked American foxhound named Kiarry's Pandora's Box was beaten out in early breed judging.
An affenpinscher called Banana Joe was picked Monday as the best of his breed for the third straight year. The three-peater known for his monkeylike face ranks among the nation's top show dogs.
Sophie the standard poodle did her best, yet didn't advance. She sure got a lot of attention backstage, with little girls petting her white coat and nuzzling her muzzle. When co-owner Jay Ponton of Norfolk, Va., moved close, Sophie chawed on his nose and licked his face.
There were pump and spritz sprays on the tables in the poodle grooming area, but none of the heavy-duty aerosol hairspray cans that are a no-no. It takes plenty of primping to get poodles ready to compete, though there are limits.
"If you're putting in teeth, that's a different beast. It's a different animal," said Roxanne Wolf of Baltimore. She's the fiancee of Sophie's handler, Kaz Hosaka, who guided a miniature poodle to the 2002 Westminster crown.
Some things are OK. Corn starch is often used to get water off a coat, and that helped Monday on a rainy as dogs piled into the exhibition space at the piers on the Hudson River for early judging.
Crufts, which expects to show 25,000 dogs next month in Birmingham, England, might change regulations that have been in place for nearly a century.
"The Kennel Club set up a working party to look at the rules surrounding the use of hairspray, chalk and other products at dog shows, and whilst this review goes on the strict prohibition of these substances remains in place, including for Crufts 2013," club secretary Caroline Kisko said.
"The Kennel Club regulations state that the use of products that could 'alter the natural color, texture or body of the coat' may not be used," she said.
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My convict ancestors were an unusual lot – but three of them were also really common. That's the conclusion I came to after looking at a clever take on transportation statistics on one Australian website.
Three out of four of mine were thieves, the crime committed by the largest number (41.4%) of transported convicts in the records at ConvictRecords.com.au, the online resource based on the British Convict transportation register for ships bound for Australia between 1787-1867. It covers 123,888 convicts from an estimated total of 160,000.
The database hasn't got the records for Atlas II, the ship on which Nicholas Delaney arrived in 1802, and there seems to be a gap where a lot of Irish rebels – or political prisoners – from 1798 should be.
There were four murderers, which was what Nicholas was convicted of, and one transported for high treason. I reckon that last one got off lightly. Until 1814, the punishment for a man was to be hung, drawn and quartered. This meant being hung, but without the long drop which could cause death. After a period of strangulation the victim was cut down, stripped naked, and, while still conscious, castrated, his belly cut open and his internal organs pulled out and burnt in front of him. At last he would be beheaded and his body cut into quarters which, with his head, would be publicly displayed as a warning to others. The punishment was designed to combine long torture (and half-hanging was notoriously also used against many suspected or genuine United Irishmen in the 1790s) with ritual humiliation.
After theft, the most common offences were larceny (12.7%), burglary (6.3%), housebreaking (5.2%) and robbery (3.9%) – there seems to be a pattern there. Some convicts were a little more imaginative in their crimes, though, with one transported for riotous conduct and felony, five machine breakers, one bigamist, seven sheep stealers and four horse thieves. There is also one convicted of being a shoemaker, but I suspect that just might be a mistake.
As for their jobs, my great-great-great grandfather John Simpson, who arrived in New South Wales on the Ocean II in 1818, was one of only four tailors on the database. James Thomas Richards of Deptford, the 2x great grandfather who I've just begun looking at, was the only waterman.
The top three occupations of transported criminals were those of labourer (12.3%), farmer (5.7%) and at 5.1%… convict. Were these repeat offenders? James Thomas Richards was convicted of another crime while serving his time in New South Wales, but the same convict system did not operate in Britain. Were they prisoners who re-offended while in custody? Do you know the answer?
Perhaps not surprisingly, housemaids come top of the specifically female occupations with 10 (2.9%) transported. They would have had plenty of temptation and opportunities to pocket the family silver and other portables. The two nursery maids, two general maids and one plain cook/house servant would have had fewer chances but probably no less covetousness.
Three needlewomen, three dairymaids and three housewives found themselves bound for Australia. Maids, laundresses and housekeeper/cooks went out two by two. One nurse/midwife is on the list, and there is one book folder, a trade which was often carried out by women. Perhaps surprisingly, there is only one prostitute. It's interesting to note that nobody was specifically transported for plying the oldest profession.*
Back to the men, and there was a mill worker, possibly one of the machine breakers – or were the three weavers responsible, with their livelihoods threatened by the new mills? We don't know whether these were hand weavers (usually male) or steam weavers (mostly female), but if they were male Luddites, they were lucky to be transported – 17 others were executed after a trial in York in 1813.
From the professional classes, one accountant got caught fiddling the figures and was sent overseas, as was one doctor.
Some of the more unusual occupations included a miniature painter, a gilt toy maker, a leather trunk maker, a coach painter, a glover's assistant, a painter's boy and a wool sorter. There was a shosebinder (is this something to do with shoe-making? It could be an alternative spelling). The only whitesmith listed worked with 'white' metals like tin, not 'black' iron.
And I've saved the best till last. I've always wanted to write this – a postillion. Not struck by lightning, but dealt a heavy blow by being transported to the other side of the world. Yet at the same time fortunate, like all my convict ancestors were, to keep their lives, to escape imprisonment and to be given the chance to make a new life in Australia.
I've found two of my ancestors on this list – have you spotted any of yours? Are you a descendant of the shosebinder, the prostitute or the postillion?
* Since writing this, I've come across a passage from Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, which says: "What is quite certain, however, is that no women were actually transported for whoring, because it was never a transportable offense. The vast majority of female convicts, more than 80 percent, were sent out for theft, usually of a fairly petty sort."
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(Pocket-lint) - Not to be confused with the upcoming T14 soundbar with separate iPod dock and wireless subwoofer, which Orbitsound debuted at CES in January 2010, the Orbitsound T12v3 is the third version of the maker's T12 model. Boasting the same spatial sound technology as its predecessors, the T12v3 sports several technical improvements including new drivers for a clearer sound at higher volumes and an improved subwoofer with a smoother bass response.
Orbitsound's main selling point is the aforementioned spatial sound technology. Developed by Ted Fletcher, a former musician and renowned audio electronics designer who has worked with The Eagles, Elton John and maverick producer Joe Meek. The on-board wizardry is desgined to deliver stereo sound from a single unit, while doing away with the concept of the 'sweet spot'. What that means is that you can stand or sit anywhere in the room and get the same stereo effect.
The T12v3 soundbar is designed to be used as an add-on sound system for a TV, or simply as a iPod speaker, thanks to the built-in docking station. The main unit measures a reasonably compact 600 x 100 x 100mm with a speaker grill covering the front and both ends, while the top is finished in glossy black. It certainly looks the part, but it's something of a fingerprint magnet, so you might want to keep a cleaning cloth handy. The soundbar also feels a little bit plasticky, although at least this means that's it's nice and light, so you won't give yourself a hernia trying to lift it into place.
The back of the unit reveals a range of connections - including ports for hooking up the subwoofer, along with the power input, optical and coaxial ports and an alternative analogue connection for your TV (both optical and analogue cables are provided). There's also a 3.5mm input so that you can connect any non-Apple music devices, and cable is included so you want have to scrabble around to find your own.
The back of the unit is home to the power switch and there was also a stereo width switch on our pre-production review sample, but the manufacturer assures us that this won't be present on T12v3 when it hits the shops in September. There's also a 21-step volume dial, which will be increased to a 31-step version for the final product. The dial can also be pushed in to flick between sources - the order of which will also be modified for the final unit, with optical input being the default source when the power is switched on.
The separate subwoofer measures in at 230 x 460 x 200, so it's not quite as compact as the soundbar itself, but it still has a relatively small footprint and can be hidden out of the way. As the sub is wired, you're slightly limited when it comes to how far away it can placed from the soundbar. Wireless connectivity would have been nice here - but that's something we can expect to see on the upcoming T14 model.
The remote control is small and lightweight and while some more sausage-fingered gadget fans may struggle a little with the closely-spaced buttons, we found them perfectly manageable. When listening to your iPod or iPhone, you can control all the basic functions, such as play, stop and skip, but the good news is that the iMenu button will also enable to access your music library so that you can scroll through the menu screens - a feature not always on offer with iPod speakers. The T12v3 carries the official Made for iPod and Made for iPhone badges, and comes with a selection of plastic adaptors to house your chosen iDevice model.
Hooking up to the TV is a cinch, although with no HDMI support, you'll have to go for the optical or coaxial inputs (or alternatively, the analogue connection). There's no visual support so don't expect any onscreen menus either. When connecting to the TV we found that it was a case of switching through the sources using the remote until we found the TV output.
The overall sound quality is certainly impressive and the 'no sweet spot' concept works perfectly. We found that the audio remained constant no matter where we were in the room. This makes it ideal for watching TV in a group, or gathering numerous players round for a quick game on the Xbox, because it's not necessary to sit directly in the middle of the speakers to get the best out of them. Even whacking the volume up didn't produce any of the dreaded 'tinny' sound that's so common on cheaper products. The subwoofer is a also a tidy addition, offering a meaty low-end response that was smooth and stable, without sounding too overcooked or overshadowing the mid-range sonics.
The Orbitsound T12v3 is very easy to set up, which is part of its charm. This is a great choice if you're looking for a simple way to beef up the sound on your TV but don't have the room (or money) to invest in a full home cinema system. Orbitsound's excellent spatial surround technology offers another compelling reason for investing in the T12v3.
At £299, the product is slightly more expensive than many rival soundbars, but the innovative spatial stereo technology certainly helps to sweetnen the pill. We would like to see a wireless sub (something which is due to land on the brand's upcoming T14) and the lack of HDMI support and onscreen guidance may put some off, but this is a great product that sounds fantastic, takes up very little room and is extremely simple to set up.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Jonas Hiller and the Anaheim Ducks finally grabbed another shootout win. Against a good team, too.
Hiller stopped Patrick Sharp and Patrick Kane in the tiebreaker, leading the Ducks to a 3-2 win Friday night and sending the Chicago Blackhawks to their third consecutive loss.
Anaheim was coming off consecutive shootout losses to Los Angeles and San Jose. It had lost four tiebreaker games in a row since it beat Phoenix 3-2 on Oct. 18 in its first shootout game of the season.
"It's been a while," said Hiller, who had 23 saves in regulation and overtime.
After Jonathan Toews scored for Chicago on the first shootout attempt, Nick Bonino responded for Anaheim. Hiller then stopped Sharp, and Kyle Palmieri beat Antti Raanta with a backhand to give the Ducks the advantage.
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"Once the Bonino, the fluky one, went in it was, 'OK, the monkey's off our back. We're good to go. We're going to start scoring again, because we missed about 18 in a row.'" Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said.
Raanta had 24 saves in his first home game. It was the first NHL shootout for the rookie, who won each of his first two starts. He looked as if he could have stopped Bonino's attempt in the tiebreaker, but it trickled under him for the score.
"Now I know how the shootout's going to be in the NHL, so we'll have to keep on working with those also," Raanta said.
It's the first three-game losing streak for the Blackhawks during the regular season since February 2012. They also lost three in a row against Detroit in the Western Conference playoffs last year, but managed to advance in seven games on their way to the title.
"Frustrating. You can't overreact to it," Toews said of the slide. "You just have to keep improving on the little things we do well as a team, and know that if keep working, we'll eventually get the breaks."
Ben Smith and Kris Versteeg scored for Chicago, which trailed 1-0 and 2-1, but rallied each time. The Blackhawks (20-6-5) still lead the NHL with 45 points.
Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf scored in regulation for Anaheim (19-7-5), which has won five in a row against Chicago.
"We continue to know how to play against these guys," Perry said. "We have a lot of great teams in the West, and they're one of them."
Getzlaf snapped a 1-1 tie at 10:05 of the second, using a screen by Perry to send a slap shot through Raanta's legs. Getzlaf's 15th goal came with Johnny Oduya in the penalty box for closing his hand on the puck.
Anaheim remained in front until Bryan Allen was sent off for boarding Toews. The Blackhawks made the most of the power-play opportunity, with Versteeg beating Hiller into the upper right corner with 2:12 to go in the second.
Versteeg's second goal since he was reacquired in a trade with Florida on Nov. 14 stopped a streak of 26 consecutive kills for the Ducks.
Each team had ample opportunities to move in front in the third, but Hiller and Raanta took turns turning away prime chances. Hiller denied a streaking Sharp right in front of the goal, and Raanta grabbed a slap shot by Matt Beleskey.
Hiller also made a terrific kick save on Toews about 35 seconds into overtime, and the Ducks had a potential winning goal waved off.
"That was a tight game," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "Had a couple good chances late in the game that were dangerous and a couple big stops."
NOTES: Getzlaf leads the Ducks with 19 assists. He has at least one point in each of his past 12 games. ... Blackhawks C Michal Handzus returned to the ice after missing two games with an illness. C Andrew Shaw (upper body) could return as soon as Sunday against Florida, while LW Bryan Bickell (lower body) is expected to begin skating again in the next week. ... The Ducks scratched Fs Tim Jackman and Patrick Maroon and defenseman Alex Grant. ... The Blackhawks' charity organization launched an online raffle for a chance to win a 2013 Stanley Cup championship ring. The raffle runs through March 21.
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Diverse roads headed in the same direction? - health care facility accreditation
Hospital managers and their provincial bosses are rarely held accountable when it comes to avoidable deaths and unacceptable health outcomes, mainly because of the national tangle of safety guidelines and policies and the absence of a uniform, credible means of probing health care delivery problems.
Dr Carol Marshal's Office of Healthcare Standards Compliance (OHSC) is introducing compulsory national core standards without which private and public health establishments cannot be accredited or access the massive National Health Insurance kitty next year. A statutory body to hold public sector hospitals accountable to minimum standards and for their outcomes is way overdue. Yet the OHSC's track record in working with the established local health care standards accreditation NGO, the Council for Health Standards Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), rings warning bells. COHSASA's tally of satisfied local and regional public hospital customers mounts by the month as adverse events plummet. Chris Bateman1,2 reports on their progress and questions the OHSC's wisdom in taking the road less travelled, and whether it really will make all the difference.
Stroke diagnosis and management in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
A study from Tanzania3 confirms that no reliable clinical method of distinguishing ischaemic from haemorrhagic stroke exists. For the stroke patient a computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain is the equivalent of an ECG in the patient with chest pain, but is frequently unavailable in SSA.
De Villiers et al. show that even in an urban community hospital in Cape Town,4 a CT scan may not be uniformly available. However, they demonstrate the power of a small 6-bed unit dedicated to the multidisciplinary acute care of the stroke patient, immediately after the incident. Mortality can be halved and disability in survivors reduced. Outcome in the stroke patient in poor socio-economic circumstances is dismal for those who cannot swallow, and requires continuation of nasogastric feeding after discharge.
South Africa experienced a measles outbreak beginning in 2009, which peaked in early 2010. Spread of the highly contagious infection was fuelled by overcrowding and poor vaccine coverage of the population. The prevailing HIV epidemic promoted the rare complication of subacute measles encephalitis (SME),5 and 8 'silent casualties' in the evanescent phase of this outbreak are reported. SME, the diagnosis of which is difficult to make, proved almost uniformly fatal. Measles immunisation of the entire population, including those who are HIV infected, is key to preventing future outbreaks and protecting those living with HIV/AIDS.
GPs and specialists prescribing antiretrovirals (ARVs) to their HIV-positive patients are warned6 that drug-drug toxic interactions are common, because all ARVs are metabolised through the same hepatic enzyme system. Such drug-drug interactions frequently go unrecognised and arise chiefly from errors in selecting daily doses. Advice is offered regarding appropriate paediatric and adult dosing to achieve efficacy and tolerability.
A survey among newly diagnosed, ARV-naïve HIV-infected individuals in Limpopo province7 shows a reassuringly low prevalence of drug-resistant HI virus mutations, as reported elsewhere in South Africa and in Zambia and Malawi. This contrasts with higher rates in chronically infected but ARV-naïve patients in developed countries, perhaps reflecting earlier exposure of the virus to single-drug therapy before the advent of potent multidrug regimens.
Anaesthetic mishaps
National strategies necessary to prevent largely preventable drug administration errors in anaesthetic practice are cited in the editorial8 accompanying a survey of anaesthetic practitioners in 22 Free State public sector hospitals,9 which elicited 329 reported errors occurring in the course of some 30 000 anaesthetics. This approximately 1% error rate (which mirrors overseas experience) appears modest, but might have been considerably higher had all incidents been reported. Common errors involved syringe swaps (because the established South African standard for colour coding syringe labels in theatre is not uniformly available in state hospitals), misidentification of drugs with similar names and ampoules that look alike, and doctor fatigue. The majority of the doctors involved were medical officers, community service officers and registrars.
Infection alerts
Antibiotic susceptibility of Esherichia coli has changed in parallel with an increase in organisms expressing beta-lactamase. Practitioners10 treating uncomplicated urinary tract infections are advised to re-consider an old drug, the urinary antiseptic nitrofurantoin, to which E. coli remains 100% sensitive, as their empiric choice and to cease prescribing trimethoprimsulphamethoxazole and ampicillin, to which there is now a high level of bacterial resistance. Overuse of the quinolones (ciprofloxacin being the practitioners' favourite) should be avoided, as they must be reserved for second-line antituberculosis therapy.
A shock finding from rural Tugela Ferry in KZN11 is that patients with HIV-TB co-infection have a 20% methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage rate on admission to the Church of Scotland Hospital; a further 10% of negative carriers at admission become positive on repeat testing, suggesting nosocomial acquisition. Fortunately, most isolates remain sensitive to vancomycin, clindamycin and fusidic acid. Those living with HIV/ AIDS potentially constitute a 'pool' of diverse infection and may represent a source of increasingly resistant organisms, as they tend to receive repeated courses of antibiotics as a variety of infections complicate their course.
Dhai et al. challenged
Anthony and colleagues12 challenge the suggestion by Dhai et al.13 that that there are strong ethical and legal imperatives for a practitioner to obtain authorisation for modern 'medicalised' vaginal delivery. Unchallenged, these views carry serious implications for overburdened public sector facilities.
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2. Bateman C. Expert trio take on Africa's health care problems - one step at a time. S Afr Med J 2011;101:290-292. [ Links ]
3. Walker RW, Jusabani A, Aris E, Gray WK, Mitra D, Swai M. A prospective study of stroke sub-type from within an incident population in Tanzania. S Afr Med J 2011;101:338-344. [ Links ]
4. De Villiers L, Badri M, Ferreira M, Bryer A. Stroke outcomes in a socio-economically disadvantaged urban community. S Afr Med J 2011;101:345-348. [ Links ]
5. Albertyn C, Van der Plas H, Hardie D, et al. Silent casualties from the measles outbreak in South Africa. S Afr Med J 2011;101:313-317. [ Links ]
6. Katende-Kyenda NL, Lubbe MS, Serfontein JHP, Truter I, Bodenstein J. Antiretroviral prescriptions with potential drug-drug interactions from general practitioners and specialists. S Afr Med J 2011:101:322-323. [ Links ]
7. Nwobegahay J, Bessong P, Masebe T, et al. Prevalence of drug-resistant mutations in newly diagnosed drug-naïve HIV-1-infected individuals in a treatment site in the Waterberg district, Limpopo province. S Afr Med J 2011;101:335-337. [ Links ]
8. Llewellyn RL, Gordon PC, Reed AR. Drug administration errors - time for national action. S Afr Med J 2011;101:319-320. [ Links ]
9. Labuschagne M, Robbetze W, Rozmiarek J, et al. Errors in drug administration by anaesthetists in public hospitals in the Free State. S Afr Med J 2011;101:324-327. [ Links ]
10. Bosch FJ, Van Vuuren C, Joubert G. Antimicrobial resistance patterns in outpatient urinary tract infections - the constant need to revise prescribing habits. S Afr Med J 2011;101:328-331. [ Links ]
11. Heysell SK, Shenoi SV, Catterick K, Thomas TA, Friedland G. Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage among hospitalised patients with tuberculosis in rural KwaZulu-Natal. S Afr Med J 2011;101:332-334. [ Links ]
12. Anthony J, Stewart CJM, Patel B. Commentary on the need to obtain consent for vaginal delivery. S Afr Med J 2011;101:310-312. [ Links ]
13. Dhai A, Garner J, Guidozzi Y, Howarth G, Vorster M. Vaginal deliveries - is there a need for documented consent? S Afr Med J 2011;101:20-22. [ Links ]


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Fidelity Investments has agreed to pay $12 million to settle two lawsuits brought by its own employees that alleged the mutual fund giant charged excessive fees in the company's own 401(k) plans.
It admitted no wrongdoing in settling the cases, Bilewicz v. FMR LLC and Yeaw v. FMR LLC.
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The 3DS's line-up is slimmer in Sweden. Fighting game Dead or Alive: Dimensions isn't currently on the website for Bergasala, a Nintendo game distributor. There might be a good reason for that.
Bergsala's Patrik Johansson told Swedish website GameReactor, "Nintendo of Europe has due to various reasons decided not to distribute the game in Sweden. They do not want to go into details, but state it is due to several reasons. Thus, unfortunately I cannot declare Nintendo's reasoning regarding the matter."
Apparently, the reasoning is that the game features underage female characters in revealing outfits. Kasumi, Kokoro and Ayane are all under 18, and DOA: Dimensions has a Figure Mode in which photos of the girls can be snapped. This might be the reason. Or something.
One Swedish game retailer supposedly got an email stating that the game was considered child pornography and therefore wasn't going on sale in Sweden. "The game has not been reported to the police as far as I know," said Johansson. "But I do know that consumers have threatened to report the game. Although that does not necessarily mean that game actually breaks any Swedish law."
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SAN FRANCISCO -- You can thank former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden for a new report from Facebook on the inquiries it gets from governments around the world for information on its more than 1 billion users.
According to the giant social network, governments in 74 countries sought information on more than 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of 2013. More than half of those requests came from the United States -- about 20,000 to 21,000 -- and Facebook said it produced some data in response to 80% of those requests.
Facebook said it required governments to meet a "very high legal bar" to receive the information.
"We fight many of these requests, pushing back when we find legal deficiencies and narrowing the scope of overly broad or vague requests," Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch said Tuesday. "When we are required to comply with a particular request, we frequently share only basic user information, such as name."
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Facebook said it would publish information on data requests on a regular basis. Google, Twitter and Microsoft have released similar information for years.
The Facebook report is the result of allegations made by Snowden that nearly every major Internet company, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, hands over the personal information of users to national intelligence agencies.
The extent of the National Security Agency's electronic data collection remains unclear. Facebook's report includes secret requests made under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Patriot Act. Facebook negotiated with the U.S. government to begin publishing the number of data requests it receives -- including national security requests -- as long as it does not specify how many of those requests are related to national security. In general, criminal matters are more common than national security matters.
Facebook, along with Google and other companies, is pressing Congress to be allowed to provide greater detail.
"We are happy to see Facebook issue its first global Government Requests Report and join the growing number of Internet companies that have recognized how important it is to be transparent about the scope of government demands for user data," said Kevin Bankston, director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Free Expression. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and basic numbers about the scope of surveillance of Facebook users can serve as an important early warning system for detecting abuse or overuse of a government's authority to demand user data."
But, Bankston said, he's disappointed that Facebook is still barred from disclosing the number of foreign intelligence and national security-related data demands it receives from the U.S. government.
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Coffee Chronicles: New Single-Origin Offerings at Joe
Not every crop of new coffee selections arrives with a personal ambassador, but when you have the chance for a formal introduction, why not take it? Ecco Caffè coffee educator Amber Fox paid a cross-coastal visit to Joe this week to introduce the California-based roaster's newest coffees.
Since Joe switched to Ecco beans last fall, the five-shop chain has undergone some changes, introducing by-the-cup brew in four of its stores (on-the-go Joe Grand Central Station being the exception) along with a new, considered attention to more seasonally focused single-origin coffees. Upping the geek level benefits all of us, and today's guided tasting—meant primarily to familiarize Joe baristas with the nuances of each selection—got this geek pretty excited for fall.
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Next up we sampled the El Tambor from Guatemala, a coffee exclusive to Joe and Ecco, which my pal Percy Ramirez plans to use when he flies back to his native Guatemala to compete in the national barista championship. If it's not too sentimental to say so, this coffee is all about autumn: poached pear, pie spice, and a flavor that cools to caramel lollipop.
Last up (and though you can tell Fox tries not to play favorites, her eyes light up when this coffee comes out) is the Kenya Kiunyu, an auction lot selected by Intelligentsia green coffee buyer Geoff Watts, but available only at Joe. The dry aroma on this one is wild—like sticking your nose into a brambly fruit bush. We slowly sip and Fox says she gets "lots of coconut green curry, lots of wine" out of the Kiunyu, with sugars emerging as it cools. Latourell likens it to the savory elements of an oxidized oolong tea, as all kinds of other conflicting and complimentary flavor information crosses my palate (cola, leafy berry, the aforementioned coconut). This coffee is weird, strange, delicious, and just as inspiring as anything you've ever drank (or smelled). I'd recommend that those who don't "get" specialty coffee yet (especially beer lovers) wander over to a Joe location for a cup of this, if I don't drink them out of stock first.
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NEW YORK -- The Nationals reached the halfway point of the season on Sunday and they hope what happened to them on this day can carry over into the second half. Washington scored early and often against rookie Zack Wheeler and pounded the Mets, 13-2, at Citi Field.
Left-hander Gio Gonzalez pitched seven scoreless innings, allowing three hits and two walks while striking out seven. Gonzalez ran into trouble in the first and seventh innings, but escaped unscathed. In the first, after Daniel Murphy singled and David Wright reached base on a walk, catcher Kurt Suzuki went to the mound to lecture Gonzalez. Suzuki looked animated after he reached the mound.
"I just made sure today I really stayed on him, because I want him to do well," Suzuki said.
Gonzalez wasn't offended that Suzuki was yelling at him. He's used to it by now. After all, they have played together since 2008, when they were with the Athletics.
"When I lost focus ... he put me right back where I needed to be," Gonzalez said. "It's like a big brother talking to a young brother. 'Hey, let's pound the strike zone. Let's figure out what we have going. Focus and hit my glove. I'm going to call ... some pitches and I want you the execute the pitches.'"
And Gonzalez was able to get out of the jam after the walk to Wright. Marlon Byrd struck out and Josh Satin flied out to Jayson Werth in right field.
In the seventh, New York had runners first and second with no outs, but John Buck flied out to Denard Span in center field, Juan Lagares popped up to shortstop Ian Desmond and Omar Quintanilla grounded out to end the inning.
The Nationals are known to struggle offensively this year, but they were able to make it a relatively easy outing for Gonzalez as early as the second inning by scoring four runs off Wheeler in the frame. Adam LaRoche led off, swung at the first pitch to hit a mammoth home run off the facing of the upper deck in right field.
Two batters later, Desmond doubled to right-center field, scoring Werth. Desmond later scored on single by Suzuki to give Washington a 3-0 lead. Suzuki scored all the way from first on a double by Denard Span.
An inning later, Werth gave Washington a five-run lead with his eighth home run of the season, a solo shot that went over the left-center-field wall.
"They know how to read over there, too. They've read all the clips that this guy [Wheeler] is going to come bearing down on them with a plus fastball," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "So they're keyed up. They know how to cheat a little bit, get the bat a little bit out front. So when it was not the 98, the 97 that we've seen, they got the barrel to it. Certainly, we've got to bear with it and tell him to get ready for your next start."
The Nationals batted around and added six more runs in the eighth inning off Brandon Lyon. Roger Bernadina had an RBI double, while Suzuki hit a two-run home run. Three batters later, Anthony Rendon doubled over the head of Eric Young Jr. in left field, scoring two more runs. Rendon scored the 11th run of the game on a single by Ryan Zimmerman.
It marked only the second time this season the Nationals scored at least 10 runs in a game.
"It was nice to see the bats come alive -- it makes the trip home a lot shorter," manager Davey Johnson said.
The Nationals then added two more runs off backup catcher Anthony Recker -- pitching to take some pressure off the Mets' bullpen -- in the ninth inning, when Desmond hit a two-run homer, his 15th of the season. For the month of June, Desmond drove in 28 runs, a record by a Nationals player since the team moved to D.C. in 2005. Desmond didn't even know he set the RBI record until a reporter told him after the game. The win seemed more important to Desmond, however.
"I'm glad we won. It was good to get the series, and we beat a good pitcher today," Desmond said. "We have been making strides in the right direction. It's just another one."
The Nationals improved their record to 41-40 and remain 6 1/2 games behind the Braves in the National League East. The Nationals return home to play a combined seven games against the Brewers and Padres beginning Monday, which will also bring the return of outfielder Bryce Harper, who is expected to come off the disabled list and hit third in the lineup for Washington.
"It's good to get Harper back. He is going to be aggressive, and we just need to keep that momentum going," Johnson said. "He carried us for a couple of months. [The pitchers] had to pitch him tough. ... It's going to be good to get him back. I have to figure how to put him back in. I'm leaning toward the original way I had [the lineup]."


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This is directed to more experienced SO users and moderators specifically. I wish to stretch beforehand that I post this question in order to better understand the policy and make sure I do not break the accepted rule of conduct, as I deeply appreciate SO and the community making it what it is.
I have been using SO for over a year now. Not a highly active user, but I did ask a number of questions, participated in the ensuing discussion and awarded answers. I mention this in order to clarify that I did not create an SO account just so I could spam/advertise.
Two days ago I have posted answers to several questions, all on the same subject, looking for a jquery plugin for creating website tours/tutorials. The questions are-
- jquery plugin for website annotation/tour?
- How to create Website Tour with jQuery
- Walkthrough plugin?
- Is there a jQuery plugin for help balloons for first time users of a site?
- How to create Site quick tour of the page's new features? (like one youtube has tooday)
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7016115/is-there-a-jquery-plugin-to-help-users-walk-through-your-web-application/14005266#14005266
Two of those answers were deleted by a moderator, after which I reread through the FAQ, and revised all of them, so that they'd better align with the rules, or so I thought. For one of the deleted answers I understood the reason for deletion since my answer was not a direct answer the the question.
Later all of the answers were deleted by Bill the Lizard.
My revised answers contained direct answer to the asked question, in the form of several links to jQuery plugins as was asked. In addition they contained a reference and a link, clearly marked and disclosed to a service my company offers which is also a solution to the requests of these answers, although not in the form of a jQuery plugin. I wish to note that I took care to only reply to questions where my answer was clearly and pointedly on-topic. Moreover, in one of the questions a different answer which is solely advertisement to a similar service was not deleted.
After reading here, and here I now understand that the grounds for deletion could be-
- My answers were duplicates (since the questions are more or less duplicates).
- I posted a link to my service, so this considered as spamming.
My question is which of the two options is the cause for deletion.
If it is the first option, why wasn't one instance left since my answers were clearly on-topic and contributed in all cases at least one option that was not mentioned in other answers?
If it is the second, I wonder how come the purely advertisement answer was left intact while mine was deleted.
If none of these are the reasons an I am still missing the point here, I would greatly appreciate an explanation so that I'd better understand the rules.


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Natural organic matter biodegradation and microbial community dynamics in artificial groundwater recharge
Research output: Book/Report › Doctoral thesis › Collection of Articles
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|Tampere University of Technology
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Artificial groundwater recharge (AGR) is a widely applied technique for producing drinking water by the infiltration of surface water into an appropriate geological formation, such as an esker. The continuous infiltration of surface water imposes the conduction of large quantities of natural organic matter (NOM) into an aquifer. Designing and implementing new areas for AGR requires a thorough understanding of the underlying biogeochemical and hydrological processes, including the mechanisms involved in the attenuation of NOM during infiltration. This study aimed to address the role of biodegradation in NOM removal and changes in microbial community structure during AGR for drinking water production. A bench-scale sand column and a fluidized-bed reactor (FBR) were used to quantify the proportion of mineralisation from dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal and to reveal the influence of temperature on biodegradation. The spatial and temporal changes of microbial communities in the experimental systems were evaluated using culture independent molecular biology methods. The NOM removal and microbial community changes during infiltration were followed at three AGR sites in Finland; Hämeenlinna (site A), Jyväskylä (site B) and Tuusula (site C). In addition, extracellular enzyme activities and nutrient availability at the Tuusula site were determined. The study showed efficient NOM removal along the flow path in both the experimental sand column and at the full-scale AGR sites. Reductions of total organic carbon (TOC) at sites A, B and C were 91%, 84% and 74%, respectively, in the winter, and 88%, 77% and 73%, respectively, in the summer. Similarly, total P decreased along the flow path at site C down to the detection limit. The proportion of organic N from total N decreased from 45% in the infiltration basin to 4 - 15% in the production well, most likely as a result of microbial metabolism. The average ratios of C:N:P indicated P limitation along the aquifer flow path and the natural groundwater. The nutritional conditions in the aquifer thus became highly oligotrophic. In the saturated sand column, on average 76% and 81% of TOC was removed within the first sampling port at 0.6 m and the entire length of 18.5 m, respectively. No accumulation of NOM was detected despite the long recharge period of 941 d. Increasing the hydraulic load from 0.3 m3(m2d)-1 to 3.1 m3(m2d)-1did not affect TOC removal. This was likely due to the washout of NOM from the sand matrix due to the sudden increase in the flow rate. Large molecular size and aromatic NOM fractions were preferentially removed in the beginning of the flow path, which was likely due to sorption. However, no accumulation of smaller fractions was observed. Biodegradation covered a substantial proportion of NOM removal in the sand bed. The δ13CDICanalysis revealed 32% to 52% DOC mineralisation in the sand column, depending on the temperature and hydraulic load. In both the continuous-flow FBR and the FBR batch tests, the highest average dissolved oxygen (DO) consumption rate was reached in summer (June-August), when lake water temperature was at its highest, followed by the fall, spring and winter. In the FBR batch tests, the DO consumption at low temperatures followed a typical kinetic curve for NOM biodegradation; i.e., a deep initial linear curve followed by a lower gradient. This illustrates the difference between rapidly and slowly biodegradable and non-biodegradable fractions. In the batch tests, a Q10 of 2.3 was found, which reveals the strong temperature dependency of NOM biodegradation. The analysis of δ13CDICrevealed 27% and 69% mineralisation of DOC in the FBR batch tests at 23 °C and 6 °C over 65 min and 630 min, respectively. In the infiltration basin sediments at site C, substantially higher biomass content, measured as volatile solids (VS), was present in the surface layer (from 0.7 mg VS g-1 to 94 mg VS g-1) as compared to the bottom sediments (from 0.5 mg VS g-1 to 3.0 mg VS g-1) (measured to a total depth of 10 cm). Similarly, the chlorophyll-a content was higher at the surface than in the bottom sediments, the quantity depending on the season. In the sand column, the VS showed continuous adsorption and desorption of biomass at the 1.2 m sampling port with the average quantity of 6.4±0.8 mg VS g-1 dw sand. Most of the NOM was removed before the 1.2 m sampling port. In the FBR, on the other hand, the quantity of carrier biomass increased until a certain level, after which no more increase occurred during the course of time of the research experiment. The maximum biomass amount in the FBR was 13.1 mg VS g-1 dw carrier. A substantial decrease in cell counts occurred in aquifers at sites A, B and C. The average cell counts in raw waters varied from 7.4 × 105 cells ml-1to 24.0 × 105 cells ml-1 and in extracted groundwaters from 0.5 × 105 cells ml-1 to 1.0 × 105cells ml-1. In the sand column, the average decrease in the cell counts by 0.6 m distance was from 20.2±5.7 × 105 cells ml-1 (n=23) in the raw water to 4.3±1.1 × 105 cells ml-1 (n=3) at 0.6 m distance. In the FBR, on average 35±5% fewer cells were present in the outlet water compared to the inlet water. At sites A, B and C, the bacterial communities in raw waters and extracted groundwaters were diverse. Changes occurred during infiltration, which was shown by DNA extraction followed by the PCR of 16S rRNA genes and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) fingerprinting. While the natural groundwater microbial community was diverse, it was different from that of the extracted groundwater in the AGR area. In the sand column, both the DGGE fingerprinting and the length heterogeneity analysis of amplified PCR products (LH-PCR) showed a change in the bacterial community already by 0.6 m distance as the community composition shifted from an Actinobacteria-dominated population to a diverse, mainly Proteobacterial community. Concurrently, a substantial decrease in DOC concentration and cell counts had occurred by that stage. The original lake water community changed overnight in the FBR feed tank amended with phosphate and nitrate. The feed tank community differed from the FBR outlet water community. While the water phase was dominated by Actinobacteria, Proteobacterial groups dominated in the biofilm. However, the dominance of the specific groups was not constant, which illustrates the dynamic nature of both communities. Compared to raw water, substantial increases were detected in the specific extracellular enzyme activities (EEAs) of α-D-glucosidase, β-D-glucosidase, phosphomonoesterase, leucine aminopeptidase and acetate esterase when measured in the AGR aquifer at site C. This was paralleled with decreasing nutrient concentrations shown by strongly negative correlations between the measured EEAs and the nutrient pools. The trend of increasing EEA along the flow path thus indicates a decrease in the availability of nutrients for bacteria. The EEA in the basin sediment (down to 10 cm) and the pore water samples were of the same order of magnitude as the basin water, indicating similar nutritional conditions. The EEAs had strong positive correlations with each other, suggesting synergistic and cooperative functions. In summary, the study demonstrated the substantial role of biodegradation in NOM removal during AGR. The biodegradation was shown to depend on seasonal changes in raw water characteristics. A change in environmental conditions was shown to be reflected by changes in the composition and the physiological functioning of the microbial community. The study contributed to the understanding of NOM removal mechanisms in AGR and provides information for different interest groups of water production.
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text: Bacary Sagna will not be rushed back into action for Arsenal, but is determined to return stronger from his long injury lay-off.The France international suffered a fractured leg against Norwich in May, the second such injury in the space of a year and one which ruled him out of Euro 2012."When you have such a big injury once, you take it, but twice is hard. In my mind I was a bit sad, but the next day I was ready for the challenge, which was to come back stronger and I am in a good way today," Sagna told Arsenal Player."I spent some time in the rehab centre, then I came back and worked really hard with the fitness coach and the physios to be ready to play – and finally I have."I don't have any target – my only aim is to be ready and bring what I can to my team, to give 100%, like always."Most of Arsene Wenger's first-team squad will be away on international duty this week, although defender Kieran Gibbs pulled out of the England squad after suffering a minor thigh problem in the win at West Ham.Right-back Carl Jenkinson has proved an able deputy in Sagna's absence, so much so he was close to a call-up by England manager Roy Hodgson for the World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Poland. "He has been really good, and has learned a lot," Sagna said. "He is a bit more confident with the ball, and is very solid as a defender."Arsenal recovered from the disappointment of a home defeat by Barclays Premier League leaders Chelsea to go into the international break on the back of a battling 3-1 win at West Ham which leaves them in touch with the chasing pack.Sagna, who has yet to agree a contract extension, said: "We have been solid. I think we can win the league – we have to take it step by step, but we have the quality necessary to play until the end of the season and win."


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Fogo Island is less than 100 square miles just east of Newfoundland and Labrador. The craggy island isn't the most hospitable place, but the roughly 3000 inhabitants are committed to living there and even taking steps to draw tourists to their rocky shores. Across the island, six artist's studios designed by Saunders Architecture are taking shape. The hope is that the island will draw the kind of cultural tourists that have flocked to places like Marfa or Bilboa. — thefoxisblack.com
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Headquartered in Plano, TX, Cinemark Holdings, Inc. is a leader in the motion picture exhibition industry with 500+ theatres in the U.S. and Latin America.
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Do you enjoy working together as a team to accomplish major goals? Join Cinemark to utilize and expand your skills! We are dedicated to making the movie experience memorable, "One Guest at a time." Our world class talent creates a warm and friendly culture through shared values.
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Every team member deserves the star treatment! Each career comes with a variety of benefits for both hourly and salaried team members. Benefits may vary by career category, see career listing for exact details
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A Concessionist is primarily responsible to create a welcoming environment for customers. They sell soft drinks, packaged and/or bulk candies, popcorn, hot dogs, ice cream, coffee, and other food items to theatre patrons. This individual operates, maintains, stocks, and cleans the concession stand and/or restaurant. The Concession or Restaurant Worker may be asked to cross-train and work as a Box Office Cashier or Usher, as staffing needs require. As a result, Employees must also be able to perform the essential job functions of those positions.
Some locations are equipped for alcohol sales. There are additional requirements for Employees who work with alcohol. Employees who work with alcohol may be in positions such as Bartender or Server.
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Greets customers and visitors
Uses suggestive selling techniques
Provides fast and friendly service; The average transaction time should be no more than 60 seconds
Rings up the sale on a computer terminal, accepts payment, and makes change
Responsible for cash balance and inventory balance
Prepares food (popcorn, hot dogs, nachos, pretzels, sandwiches, light entrees, desserts, etc.)
Properly operates cooking, warming, and popping equipment
Stocks concession and restaurant supplies
Cleans concession area, lane dividers and equipment thoroughly multiple times throughout the shift.
Sanitizes areas anywhere food product is served, stored or present every hour (food service areas, kitchens/sculleries, beverage stations, condiment/butter areas.
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Verifies all necessary film ticketing restrictions have been met (where applicable) and places the appropriate stamped wristband on the Customer
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Frequent bending, kneeling, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
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Noise level may be moderate to high at times.
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NEW YORK, New York - U.S. stocks rose again on Monday, partly on relief that tariffs on Mexican imports into the United States will avoid tariffs, thanks to a last-minute deal reached on Friday night.
The U.S. mirrored gains being made in equity markets around the world.
The Dow Jones rose for a sixth straight day, a streak not seen for 13 months.
At the close of trading Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 78.74 points or 0.3% at 26,062.68.
The Standard and Poor's 500 added 13.39 points or 0.47% to 2,886.73.
The Nasdaq Composite climbed 81.07 points or 1.05% to 7,823.17.
The U.S. dollar was mixed. After gaining against the euro in the Asian session, most of those gains were given up in U.S. trading.
By the close in New York on Monday, the euro was well bid at 1.1315.
The British pound conversely lost ground compared to its Asian performnace, last quoted at 1.2688.
The Jpaanese yen rose to 108.42 while the Swiss franc firmed to 0.9895.
The Canadian dollar was little changed, holding on to recent gains at 1.3266.
The Australian dollar remained weak, having been sold off in Asia. It was quoted at 0.6960.
The New Zealand dollar too was friendless, last quoted at 0.6610.
In overseas markets the FTSE 100 in London rose by 0.69%.
The German Dax appreciated by 0.77%.
The Paris-based CAC 40 added 0.34%.
Shares in Asia generally were strong after Friday night's deal between Mexico and the U.S.
A powerful improvement in Chinese exports also aided markets in the region.
The Australian market was closed due to the Queen's birthday being celebrated in New South Wales and Victoria.
At the close of trading in Hong Kong on Monday, the Hang Seng was ahead 548.08 points or 2.03% at 27,513.36.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 jumped 249.71 points or 1.20% to 21,134.42.
The Shanghai Composite meantime gained 27.76 points or 0.98% to 2,855.56.


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27.0303 Rulemaking-DPO director authority.
In order to carry out the responsibilities under this chapter, the director of development planning is authorized to propose to the Governor for his promulgation, pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 4.10 ASCA, such rules as may be necessary and proper for the effective implementation and administration of this chapter and the policies hereunder established. The director shall also have authority to review and approve all contract documents and awards, progress payments to contractors, requests for draw- downs of CDBG funds from letters of credit, the determination of final costs in all CDBG project closeouts, and to take and require such actions as the director deems necessary and appropriate to ensure that all CDBG funds are obligated, expended, and accounted for in accordance with all applicable federal laws and regulations. Pursuant to this authority, the director may require written reports and copies of records of other departments, offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the ASG pertaining to the CDBG program or the use of CDBG funds.History: Rule 14-80 (Ex. Ord. 5-1980), eff 28 Ju1 80, § 3.