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A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies.
National Olympic Committees[edit]
As of 2011, there are 204 NOCs, representing both sovereign nations and other geographical areas. 192 of the 193 member states of the United Nations have IOC-recognized National Olympic Committees (the exception being South Sudan, which gained its independence on 9 July 2011, and does not yet have a National Olympic Committee[1]), as do 12 other territories:
- Taiwan designated as Chinese Taipei by the IOC
- Palestine
- Four territories of the United States: American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and United States Virgin Islands (designated just Virgin Islands by the IOC)
- Three British Overseas Territories: Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, and Cayman Islands
- One territory from the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean: Aruba. The Netherlands Antilles lost its status in July 2011 as a result of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010.[2][3]
- Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China
- Cook Islands, an associated state of New Zealand
Prior to 1996, rules for recognising separate countries at the IOC were not as strict as those for the United Nations, which allowed several dependent territories, such as Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Hong Kong to field teams separately from their parent nation. Following an amendment to the Olympic Charter in 1996, NOC recognition can only be granted after recognition as an independent country by the UN.[4] As such, dependent territories such as Curaçao, Gibraltar, Macau or the Faroe Islands cannot be recognised by the IOC, and athletes from those territories can only participate in the Olympics as part of their parent nation's national team. However, the rule does not apply retroactively, so dependent territories which were recognised before the rule change are allowed to continue sending separate teams to the Olympics.
The NOCs are all members of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), which is also split among five continental associations:
Continent | Association | NOCs | Oldest NOC | Newest NOC | |
Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa | 53 | Egypt (1910) | Eritrea (1999) | |
Pan American Sports Organization | 41 | United States (1894) | Dominica (1993) Saint Kitts and Nevis (1993) Saint Lucia (1993) |
Olympic Council of Asia | 44[5] | Japan (1912) | Timor-Leste (2003) | |
European Olympic Committees | 49 | France (1894) | Montenegro (2007) | |
Oceania National Olympic Committees | 17 | Australia (1895) | Tuvalu (2007) |
See the article for each continental association for the complete lists of all NOCs.
List of NOCs by recognition date[edit]
Below is a chronological list of the 204 NOCs recognized by the International Olympic Committee, since its foundation in 1894. Many of these committees were founded many years before their official recognition, while others were immediately accepted after being founded.
Only extant states are listed. Former states (e.g. The Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands Antilles, etc.), are not listed, only the current states derived from them (for example the Czech Olympic Committee representing Bohemia was created and recognized in 1899. It was later transformed into the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee, and, after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, was re-recognized in 1993).
Unrecognized National Olympic Committees[edit]
The Macau Sports and Olympic Committee was founded in 1987 and has attempted to enroll to the IOC since its foundation, but is still not officially recognized and thus no athlete has participated in the Olympic Games under the name "Macau, China". It has, however, participated in the Paralympic Games. The Faroe Islands have a recognised National Paralympic Committee.[7]
Other existing countries/regions with unrecognized Olympic committees: Catalonia,[8] Gibraltar,[9] French Polynesia,[10] Niue,[11] Kosovo (see Olympic Committee of Kosovo), Somaliland,[12] New Caledonia,[13] Kurdistan,[14][15] Northern Cyprus,[16] Abkhazia,[17] Native Americans,[18][19] the Northern Mariana Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, and Turks & Caicos Islands.[20]
See also[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to National Olympic Committees. |
- "National Olympic Committees". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 January 2008.
- Association of National Olympic Committees website
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/8632832/London-2012-Olympics-South-Sudan-can-compete-at-Games.html London 2012 Olympics: South Sudan 'can compete at Games'] The Telegraph, 12 July 2011</
- ^ "Executive Board concludes first meeting of the new year". olympic.org ("Official website of the Olympic movement"). 13 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ^ "Curtain comes down on 123rd IOC Session". Unknown parameter
ignored (help) - ^ Overseas Territories (3rd February 2012). Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.
- ^ The OCA includes 45 NOCs; the Macau Sports and Olympic Committee is not recognized by the IOC and Macau does not compete at the Olympic Games.
- ^ The Olympic Committee of Serbia
- ^ "Ítróttasamband Føroya | Just another WordPress weblog". Isf.fo. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ Freedom for Catalonia?: Catalan Nationalism, Spanish Identity and the Barcelona Olympic Games (Cambridge Cultural Social Sciences) (9780521586153): John Hargreaves: Books. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 24 October 2009.
- ^ "www.andalucia.com". www.andalucia.com. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
- ^ Article: Miss Tahiti 2003 stripped of her title. | AccessMyLibrary - Promoting library advocacy. AccessMyLibrary (2005-06-03). Retrieved on 24 October 2009.
- ^ SportingPulse Homepage for Niue Island Sports Association and National Olympic Committee. Sportingpulse.com. Retrieved on 24 October 2009.
- ^ "Website ka wasaaradda Dhalinyaradda Iyo Ciyaaraha Somaliland - Homepage". Somalilandolympics.org. 18 January 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ "New Caledonia National Olympic Committee". SportingPulse. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ "Display Article". Kurdishglobe.net. 16 January 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ http://www.sportcountries.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/conference_2008/INSCRITS_DEFINITIU.pdf[dead link]
- ^ "Embargo! Time to end the unjust embargoes against the people of North Cyprus". Embargoed.org. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ The ABC Republic: Abkhazia Attempts to Invent Itself - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Spiegel.de. Retrieved on 24 October 2009.
- ^ "Native Americans seek recognition". Nativevoices.org. 27 February 2006. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ "Jim Thorpe's Sons Bolster Native American Olympic Dream : Fri, 10 Jul 2009 : eNewsChannels". Enewschannels.com. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ "CANOC Members". canoc.net. Retrieved 16 August 2010.


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Director/cinematographer Doug Liman's third feature links together three edgy stories, all beginning in the same Los Angeles supermarket with an interconnected group of characters. Ronna (Sarah Polley) is a down-on-her-luck checkout girl who is sweet talked into taking an extra shift from her friend Simon (Desmond Askew) so he can go to Las Vegas. Ronna is then approached by two good-looking actors, Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr), who want to buy drugs. Ronna, who needs money, plans to act as a go-between between the actors and a dealer friend of Simon's, Todd (Timothy Olyphant), until a cop named Burke (William Fichtner) enters the picture. Meanwhile, Simon is living it up in Vegas; in the course of a very wild night on the town, he manages to bed two women, accidentally steal a car with his good friend Marcus (Taye Diggs), and get thrown out of the best strip club in town, with more than a few people after him, especially when he leaves behind a credit card he borrowed from Todd. Once again back at the supermarket, Adam and Zack turn out to not be quite what they seemed, and their relationship with Burke and his wife Irene (Jane Krakowski) takes an unexpected turn as their evening becomes very, very complicated. Go, Liman's long-awaited follow-up to his indie hit Swingers, received its World Premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:36:54PM -0600, Donald B. Kinghorn wrote: > Hi all, > > Do any of you know of any compact dual motherboard cases? [ by dual > motherboard case I mean a case that will accommodate two full ATX > motherboards] I'd like to build some 4 processor clusters (two dual processor > motherboards) in a single case. I know of a couple of HUGE server cases like > the one from Cal PC (which I've used) and Chenbro but I'd like to find The Macase KI-P80H is another such server case, but was apparently designed for 4 motherboards, so if you divide the cost by the 4 motherboards it isn't so unreasonable (we haven't put multiple M/Bs in ours, just many hard disks). It is basically a 4RU case (with PCI slots) for one motherboard, dual heavy duty power supplies, and a large empty bay (another 4RU) where the other M/B's (cardless) could go. http://www.macase.com/ipc-ki-p80.htm ------------------------------------ The KI-P80 8U 19" rack mount rugged Industrial PC chassis is specifically engineered for brutal industrial environments. They are designed to isolate the computer from shock, vibration, heat, dust, liquids, and moisture. It's provides fans cooling the main chassis are equipped with a removable dust filter. It also has built-in thermal alarm & fan failure control board in the chassis. The KI-P80 is a rugged 19", 20 slot rack mount IPC chassis especially designed for applications that require a large number of expansion slots and disk drives, or for integrating multiple PC systems into one chassis. Its back plane architecture allows for easier upgrading, troubleshooting, and more efficient system packaging. In addition to a (800W+400W) or (400W+400W) hot swappable redundant power supply a power On/Off switch, four sets of system controls, reset switches and keyboard connectors, are installed so that the enclosed PC systems can work both independently and simultaneously. > I've spent quite a bit of time searching on the web but haven't come up with > anything acceptable. I'd consider custom fabrication but the cost needs to be > under $700 US. The price is a bit less than twice this, but if you can get 4 motherboards into it it's not completely unreasonable. -Drake
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The DMC-SZ3 boasts a powerful 10x optical zoom lens*. This gives you highly natural expressions from people and animals that you can't get close to. And its slim, stylish body can easily go wherever you go - for both everyday snapshots and traveling.
* 35mm camera equivalent: 25-250mm.
The 25mm ultra wide-angle lens* has about twice the shooting area as a standard 35mm lens. This enhances all kinds of shooting situations, like when you're photographing a group of people at an indoor party or shooting a large structure or sweeping landscape while traveling.
* Converted to standard 35mm camera equivalent, at the wide-end.
The Intelligent Zoom is an extensive zoom function using digital zoom with minimum deterioration of image quality thanks to the Intelligent Resolution technology. The 10x optical can virtually extend to 20x equivalent.
The DMC-SZ3 incorporates 25mm ultra wide-angle 10x optical zoom LEICA DC lens. Adoption of sliding structure of its optical system makes the unit's overall length short to fit in the slim body despite its versatile zoom range from ultra wide to telephoto. Passing Leica's stringent standards, DMC-SZ3 boasts exceptional optical performance with stunning clarity with minimum distortion and flare.
The MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) compensates for the blurring caused by hand-shake. Even slight hand-shake movement is accurately detected by a sampling frequency of 4,000 times per second, and compensated to produce sharp, clear images.
Zoom Shots / Macro Shots
In Dimly Lit Rooms
Night Scenes
Night Portraits
In the iA (Intelligent Auto) Mode, the camera does all the work, leaving you free to compose your shot and capture the moment. You just press, aim and shoot. The detection and correction functions go to work to give you beautiful photos with maximum ease.
The DMC-SZ3 boasts the quick start-up time. Together with the Sonic Speed AF, the DMC-SZ3 never misses the most fleeting shooting opportunities.
The DMC-SZ3 can record HD video in Motion JPEG format (1,280 x 720 pixels at 24 fps). Recording motion image can be started with a press of an independent motion picture button, which is extremely convenient for you to switch photo / video shooting instantly.
* The video is optimized for web view by file conversion.
• QuickTime Motion JPEG. • Some lens movement sounds may be recorded. • In Motion Picture Mode, the length of recording time depends on the capacity of the SD/SDHC/SDXC Memory Card. (Up to the equivalent of 2 GB per motion-image recording.) • [For Europe] Motion pictures can be recorded continuously for up to 15 minutes. Also, continuous recording exceeding 2GB is not possible. Remaining time for continuous recording is displayed on the screen. • [For other regions] Motion pictures can be recorded continuously up to 2 GB. The maximum available recording time for up to 2 GB only is displayed on the screen. • Use a card with SD Speed Class* with "Class 6" or higher when recording motion images. * SD speed class is the speed standard regarding continuous writing. • SDHC Memory Cards and SDXC Memory Cards can be used only in equipment that is compatible with their respective formats. • If the computer being used does not support SDXC Memory Cards, a message prompting you to format may appear. (Doing so will cause recorded images to be erased so do not choose to format.) If the card is not recognized, please refer to the below support site.
The DMC-SZ3 complies with USB power charging in addition to the conventional AC power supply. The energy-saving Venus Engine and the efficient, rechargeable lithium-ion battery let you take approx. 250 shots on a single battery charge*.
* Based on the CIPA standard.
- The Intelligent LCD automatically adjusts the brightness in 11 steps according to shooting conditions.
- In addition to 4:3, 3:2, and 16:9, you can shoot with a unique, square-shaped 1:1 aspect ratio.
- A total of 14 Scene Modes set the most appropriate parameter in wide-ranging situations. More information
- The 90MB built-in memory provides extra memory when your memory card fills up.
- The PHOTOfunSTUDIO smartly sorts your images into practical folders for quick, easy management.
• Availability of models, colors, product design and optional accessories may differ depending on the country or region. Check the website of the Panasonic sales company in your country or region.
• SDXC Logo is a trademark of SD-3C,LLC.
• SDHC Memory Cards and SDXC Memory Cards can be used only in equipment that is compatible with their respective formats.
• If the computer being used does not support SDXC Memory Cards, a message prompting you to format may appear. (Doing so will cause recorded images to be erased so do not choose to format.) If the card is not recognized, please refer to the below support site.
• Leica is a registered trademark of Leica Microsystems IR GmbH. • ELMAR is a registered trademark of Leica Camera AG. • The Leica DC lenses are manufactured using measurement instruments and quality assurance systems that have been certified by Leica Camera AG based on the company's quality standards.


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Listen to P.A.P.I. on iHeartRadio
Fans of P.A.P.I., a.k.a. N.O.R.E., can mark their calendars. The rapper announced that his upcoming album Student of the Game will hit stores on April 16th.
A number of big name rappers are slated to appear on P.A.P.I.'s sixth album. He has previously said that DMX, Ja Rule, Flavor Flav, Lil Wayne and Pharrell Williams have all signed on for the album. Pharrell is also reportedly taking on production duties for some of the tracks.
P.A.P.I. has already given his followers a taste of what the album holds. Back in 2011 he released the album's first single "Finito" featuring Pharrell and Lil Wayne.
The rapper formerly known as N.O.R.E. has not released an album since 2007's Noreality. That record featured guest appearances by Three Six Mafia, Jadakiss, Kurupt and Kanye West.
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France has traditionally been a centralised state. The policies relating to the banning of discrimination are created and implemented above all by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the Ministry of Interior. Certain local authorities, mostly departmental and managed through the prefect under the authority of the Ministry of Interior and local services of social affairs, also have an important role to play, particularly as regards policies relating to the Roma, traveller population and immigrants.
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All codified texts prohibiting discrimination in national legislation state a list of prohibited grounds without defining them. Since the law prohibits taking the concept of origin or race into consideration, they are not defined and no application of the exception provided in Directive 2000/43 was enacted into French law.
In France, since the law is transversal for a great part of its protection, cases are referred to as precedents whether or not they discuss issues related to the same ground of discrimination.
In private law, the legal regime relating to discrimination is to be found in statutes and codified law i.e. the Labour Code (LC), the Penal Code (PC) and the Civil Code (CC). Administrative law, on the other hand, is mostly jurisprudential and based on the implementation of a formal theory of equality.
The law covers all grounds prohibited by Article 19 par.1 TFEU and a number of other grounds: origin, national origin- in some legislation- appearance of origin, race, sex, pregnancy, family situation, physical appearance, last name, health, disability, genetic characteristics, mores, sexual orientation, age, union activities, and religion, political and religious convictions (which are interpreted broadly to encompass all philosophical or mystical endeavours).
On July 21st, 2008, Government has passed a Constitutional Law modernising the institutions that creates, at Article 41, a Defender of the Rights with extended powers. Its powers and jurisdiction have been precisely defined by the Organic Law no. 2011-333 of 29 March 2011 that came into force on 1st may 2011. It integrates the Médiateur de la République (French Ombudsman), the Defender of the rights of the Child, the Commission for the Deontology of Security, and finally the HALDE. It absorbs the jurisdiction over claims in all these areas as well as competence to propose legislative reform, to pursue actions for the promotion of rights and carry out research in all its spheres of competence. Its competence covers all grounds of discrimination, direct and indirect, prohibited by national laws and International Conventions duly ratified by France.


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You Can See the State Rooms of Buckingham Palace When the Queen is Away: Hot off the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton, what a great time it is to visit Buckingham Palace. The Palace's 19 State Rooms are usually open to the public for a limited time, between July to September, when Her Majesty the Queen makes her annual visit to Scotland. This year, the State Rooms are open to visitors from 23 July to 3 October. The Faberge Exhibition The special exhibition this … [Read more...]
Buckingham Palace – Royal Residence of the Queen
Buckingham Palace - Official Residence of Britain's Monarchy since 1837: Undoubtedly one of the most popular tourist attractions in London, Buckingham Palace is still the official residence of Britain's monarchy, as it has been since Queen Victoria's designation in 1837. Much of the building was constructed as early as 1703 for the Duke of Buckingham. In 1762, George III purchased Buckingham House (as it was then known) and used it as a private residence. Over the following 75 years the … [Read more...]


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Either pub servers are chock full of cheaters now or I just had the weirdest night.
Jumped into ANZ 2 tonight after not playing on a pub server for what must be more than a month and this is what happened:
* 2 of us murdered in cherno store while our overwatch was battle eye kicked (not related)
* overwatch reconnects and blows the guys brains out on top of the fire station, waiting in the rain for noobs to come to the store
* his friend is hiding inside with god only knows what, didn't look like a normal weapon
* my body (fully geared, SAW and an AS50, big pack, nvg's the works) sits there untouched by either of them because they had everything (including radios)
* second guy logs out after taking a couple of rounds from me
* the 3 of us move towards electro, we spy a ghillie suited sniper running along the road towards cherno in the open, he logs out after taking an AS50 round
* take out a sniper on the "sniper hill" berm who's lying in the open holding an AS50-TWS, then his friend who has the same
* cleaning the bodies when i notice 3 more corpses just sitting on the berm about 50m away, looked like a close range firefight with long-guns
total gear count for one hill(over 5 corpses):
3x AS50 TWS
2x L85 AWS
4x big coyote
8x nvg's, gps, rangefinders
3x military radio
Did we just clean up the aftermath of every geared person in the server? Or are 90% of people scripting weapons and gear now?
Other than the first guy who caught us unaware and was blasting some kind of hiphop, not a single one of them fired a shot or reacted even remotely right when we engaged them, they had top tier gear and not a single clue how to use it.


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Watch: The Ferrari California Spider - A car collector's dream
At the annual Scottsdale, Ariz. auto auctions last weekend, the biggest headlines were about the Batmobile, which sold for $4.6 million. But that was only the third-highest price paid at the auctions and it wasn't even close the top dollar amount.
That honor went to this beautiful 1958 Ferrari painted in Bleu Sera Metallizzato which sold at the Gooding & Co. auction. Only 50 long-wheelbase versions of this car were ever made and this is number 13. It has its original upgraded V12 engine.
All the prices in this gallery, as collected by the collector car insurer Hagerty Insurance, include commissions which usually amount to 10% of the "hammer price."
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The redesigned pony car will offer better fuel economy, an improved ride and better handling, Ford says.


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I finally have the new PX Black in my hands from Finaflex. I have never been let down by this company, every product I have used has delivered big time, so I expect results! Big thanks to Snags aka snagencyV2.0 and the Finaflex team for giving me the opportunity to run this.
I work hard, live hard, and play hard, all while trying to better myself physically, mentally, spiritually, yadda yadda.
Right now I am living on the beach in Panama City Florida. I have three jobs, and trying to get a business on the beach off the ground, so yeah I'm f*ckin busy. But I always make time for my old friend the iron because let's face it; I want to look and feel my best, especially in a crazy place like this. So there won't be any slackin' in here.
Current stats are:
Height: 5' 10.5 "
Weight: 193 lbs
Bodyfat: 15% ish ?
Current routine: German Volume training (it's the best for recomp imo)
I've already taken two PX Black caps as I type this and damn I feel good.
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Taken completely cold just after waking up. Tried to make as clear as possible so we can really see any and all progress. These were taken a few days ago on the last day of a ski trip in Vail, CO. which I just returned from. I ate like **** the whole trip. Ate like **** most of the winter too but I was still extremely active so didn't put on too much fat. I will also be taking just two caps of Finaflex 1-Alpha throughout the duration of this log to preserve as much muscle as possible while murdering bodyfat.
Other supps:
Fish Oil
Occasional nootropic cocktails
Occasional random sample from whoever for ****s n giggles
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Latest Statewide Master Gardener News
A Note of Thanks and Holiday Wishes
Happy Holidays to All!
This Thanksgiving I finished up my bulb planting project and reflected on all of the things I am grateful for. If you'll indulge me - I'd like to share a few of them with all of you.
- I am thrilled to be a part of the UCCE Master Gardener community and am still reveling in the warm welcome, patience and support as I have been making the transition.
- New staff and positions at the statewide office will help us better address the needs of the UCCE Master Gardeners! Aubrey Bray is enjoying her new position as training coordinator. Aubrey is doing the formative work for online training modules to complement the CA Master Gardener Handbook (new handbook's ETA is fall 2014). Melissa Womack is settling is as program coordinator and has already shown us how valuable her talents will be to harness the power of our Web based assets throughout the state.
- The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) has a beautiful new home. Now all programs and functions within UC ANR are housed in the same building in Davis, Calif. The statewide Master Gardener office moved in early November, and now has direct access to Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Information Technology (IT) and increased visibility to ANR leadership!
Here is our new contact information:
Master Gardener Program
University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
2801 Second Street
Davis, CA 95618-7779
Fax: 530.756.1076
Melissa: 530.750.1388
Aubrey: 530.865.1105
Missy: 530.750.1266
I am looking forward to a fruitful 2014 with exciting opportunities, including the 2014 Statewide Master Gardener Conference next October. Please keep your eyes open for blog posts and updates – the theme is appropriately Growing Together, a tagline we are actively putting into practice now and for years to come.
Wishing you a safe and family filled holiday season!
Warm Regards,
News from the Statewide Master Gardener Program
I would like to take a moment to introduce myself, my name is Melissa Womack and I am ecstatic to begin my new role as Program Representative for the University of California Statewide Master Gardeners! I've heard a myriad of compliments about the wonderful people involved in the Master Gardener Program across the state of California. Each person I've had the opportunity to meet has been helpful, kind and supportive - what a wonderful group of people. I am eager to meet and learn from each of you as my time and experience with the Master Gardeners grows.
Most of my childhood took place in Lake Forest located in Orange County, Calif. After graduating high school I moved to sunny San Diego, Calf. where I received my BA in Communications with an emphasis in Media Management from San Diego State University. After graduating college I moved to the Sacramento area with my husband Jeff. In April of 2010, we welcomed our beautiful daughter into the world.
Professional Experience
The last 10 years of my professional career have been dedicated to marketing and social media. Before accepting a position with the UC Master Gardeners program, I was a key member of an international communications team - responsible for developing policies, best practices and social media branding for a global solar manufacturer.
I believe strongly in the importance of building an engaged online community and am thrilled to see so many Master Gardeners have 'gone social'! I have a creative eye for design and a passion for photography, which propelled me into corporate video production. My understanding of video helped develop an online video library consisting of product information and training videos. I am excited to advance these skills and confident we will develop a video resource library for Master Gardeners in the future.
I am confident my marketing experience creating and maintaining corporate websites will help develop the functionality of the Master Gardeners Program's resources. In addition, I am looking forward to driving a public awareness campaign for the UCCE Master Gardeners and assisting in digital media management. I am always available to assist with questions surrounding the VMS system and would love to help support your efforts collecting information and resources from UC ANR.
Contact me
I am hopeful my professional experience will bring added value to the Master Gardener Program. If you have any questions or comments feel free to e-mail me directly at email@example.com or call me on my direct line 530.750.1388.
I am eager to meet and learn from each of you as my time and experience with the Master Gardeners grows. I am so thankful for the opportunity to join the statewide Master Gardener team, and looking forward to getting to know all of you!
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving!
/span>Growing Together at the 2014 UC Master Gardener Conference
It feels like just yesterday the University of California Master Gardeners joined together for the 2011 UC Master Gardener Conference at the Hyatt hotel in beautiful Santa Rosa, Calif. It's hard to believe it is already time to start thinking about the 2014 UC Master Gardener Conference on October 7th -10th, 2014 at the gorgeous Tenaya Lodge, near the south entrance of Yosemite National Park.
You Spoke, We Listened!
After each conference the Statewide Master Gardener Conference Committee strives to make the next event bigger and better for attendees. The committee meets following the conference and reviews previous glitches and setbacks to determine solutions and strategies for future conferences. Sounds a lot like gardening, doesn't it?
This year we surveyed UCCE Master Gardeners from across the state and asked, "What topics do you want to see at the 2014 conference?" The committee has been diligently working on securing speakers, site tours and a seminar agenda that came directly as a result from your feedback.
General Track Topics Include:
- Edible Landscaping
- Sustainable Landscaping
- Horticulture
- Integrated Pest Management
- Growing Leaders, Growing Programs
- Art of the Garden
- Master Food Preservers
We are busy lining up speakers for each of topic, check back often for updates!
Conference Highlights Include:
- Keynote speakers
- Networking
- "Search for Excellence Awards"
- Pre and post conference tours
- Silent auction
- Vendor mall
- UC Master Gardener store
- Located at one of California's foremost destinations
The committee is currently in the process of securing sponsorships designed to help reduce registration fees. In hopes of fee reductions, registration costs have not been finalized – and will be announced at a later date.
We hope you will plan on joining us in October at the 2014 UC Master Gardener Conference. Keep up to date with conference information on our website. We will continue to keep you updated with more details as they become available from the committee.
Happy Gardening!
New Pest Alert for Bagrada bug, a pest of cole crops
UC IPM's new Pest Alert helps you identify Bagrada bug, an invasive stink bug spreading through western Arizona and southern California causing severe crop, nursery and landscape losses. In agriculture, Bagrada bug is a pest of cole crops and other mustard family plants. In home gardens it feeds on these same vegetables and on ornamental plants such as sweet alyssum and candytuft.
Bagrada bugs use their needlelike mouthparts to pierce and feed on plants and thier seeds. Damage includes leaf spotting, wilting, stunting, multiple branches or crowns, and death of the whole plant.
The Pest Alert was produced by UCCE advisors Eric Natwick and Surendra Dara, John Palumbo from the University of Arizona, and the UC IPM team.
Snails, Slugs, and Spiders Star in New Videos from UC IPM
Do you have snails and slugs chewing up your favorite garden plants? Are spiders hanging out in and around your home? How can you get rid of those pesky webs?
The UC Statewide IPM program has just released six short videos to help you find answers to these questions. Find the videos on the UC IPM YouTube channel or linked from the specific Pest Notes publications on Snails and Slugs or Spiders.
Snails and slugs chew holes in leaves and fruit of many different types of plants, but they aren't always present when the damage is discovered. Caterpillars, earwigs, grasshoppers, weevils, and others cause similar damage. How can you identify the culprit? The short video clip "Did a snail eat my plant?" shows damage caused by various pests and can help you identify snail or slug damage by looking for their characteristic slime trails and excrement.
If you do have snails and slugs in the garden and want to control them without using pesticides, learn how to combine trapping with other nonchemical methods for best results in the clip "Trapping snails and slugs." If you decide to use a pesticide, check out the video on "How to apply snail and slug bait." You'll learn what types of baits are best, which ones to avoid, and how and when to apply them for best results.
Although many people fear them, most spiders you encounter during the day are harmless and can be beneficial in your garden and landscape by eating pest insects.. You can see different kinds of spiders in the short clip "Common garden spiders." However beneficial they may be, you might not want them inside your home. Even though the easiest method of getting rid of a spider is to kill it, why not trap it and let it loose outdoors to eat those garden pests? "How to catch a spider" shows several ways to easily trap a spider and let it go, including two types of nifty spider catchers that catch spiders in hard-to-reach places. Now what about those sticky webs? "How to clean up spider webs" shows practical methods for removing webs from around your home such as vacuuming, sealing holes in cracks or screens, hosing them off, or using a Webster tool. These methods can also help to keep spiders out of your home.
For more information on snails, slugs, spiders, and other home and garden pests, visit the UC IPM web site.


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European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Relief Sculpture with the Angel of the Annunciation and the Virgin Mary [central figures], Flanked by Saint Catherine [left] and Saint Barbara [right] Possibly made in eastern Europe, France, Europe15th century Artist/maker unknown, French? Stone with traces of paint * Gallery 204, European Art 1100-1500, second floor (Knight Foundation Gallery) 1969-214-1 Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Paul G. Ecker, 1969 |
* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit. |


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Imagine I am working on a start up that is at a functional prototype level and so far, I have not registered it anywhere and basically done no legal work whatsoever. Now, I need to be looking for
- Funding
- Partners
- Co-founder
- Early Employees
All the above involves me disclosing stuff and showing the prototype and I am sure it is recommended to hire a lawyer first but absolutely no money left. Believe me! No cash! Maybe 1000$ left for this! :)
What should I do? Is there a minimum list of things that I can do myself with no hired lawyer involved before doing the above? I was thinking maybe first register a corporation and then put together a NDA from the ones I have signed (they all look super similar to me) and maybe double check it with a laywer (should be a lot cheaper that way) and get in the wild or I am crazy by saying that and I absolutely must hire a laywer (for money or equity) before getting involved in any of the above? If so, what kind of cost am I looking at?
Please please your practical advice instead of scaring me off! :)
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The Westin Harbour Castle Downtown Toronto Hotel is a landmark waterfront hotel in downtown Toronto on Lake Ontario conveniently located near the Air Canada Centre, CN Tower and the theatre district.
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When SodaStream came to see us at fuseproject, I was already a user of the machine for a few years. More importantly I was a fan of how the product made it easy for anyone to change their sparkling and soda consumption by not wasting disposable bottles. It is rare when values such as sustainability align so easily between client and designer.
Sustainability is an opportunity to make any product or service more efficient for the world, and more practical and engaging for the users. We set out on a journey to apply a vision of "reduce and refine" to the entire sparkling water and soda making experience.
The focus became to make the soda making experience more magical. Ease of use has been drastically improved with world class mechanical engineering, while the design was refined to acquire a refined simplicity on the kitchen counter.
The design of Source was a process of elimination. Starting with the larger volume, we chiseled off the functional areas and sculpted transitions. The resulting form is the quality we focused on for the design of the SodaStream Source. Visual clarity with a single monolithic shape and a carved-out area into which the new bottle finds a home is the new visual signature. There is no need to screw a bottle in the Source, instead a single-handed push locks it in place. The entire top surface responds to touch to carbonate, and interactive feedback is shown with back-lit LEDs to differentiate between different levels of carbonation. The Source requires no electricity, but achieves its great feel through refined mechanical ingenuity.
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The Battle of Peasholm Park
Peasholm Park Naval Warfare is a unique holiday attraction and could be the longest running show of all time. As near as we can say the first performance was held about 1927. It was the brainchild of Mr George Horrocks who was the Entertainment's Manager for many years. Incidentally he was also responsible for the Open Air Theatre which is just across the road from Peasholm Park.
In the early days the models consisted of First World War battleships which were known as Dreadnoughts, a mystery ship or two which were known as Q ships, a liner bearing the name 'Orantes' and even in those days there was a submarine (U-boat). All the vessels were powered by manpower only. It was, of course, hard work for the operators. Although the vessels were 20ft plus long, cramped conditions inside created a host of problems. Electric power was introduced for the 1929 season. During the 1939-45 war years all the models were kept in storage. Unfortunately they suffered battle damage in the form of dry rot and woodworm so that after the war the vessels made a visit to the breaker's yard and were replaced with a new fleet of ships. The ships built.being all scale models of the vessels which took part in the Battle of the River Plate, consisted of the following: British cruisers - HMS 'Ajax', HMS 'Achilles' and HMS 'Exeter', the latter being the flagship of the famous trio, and of course the German battleship 'Graf von Spee'. The Royal Mail liner 'Asturias' was also introduced along with a submarine. The format was changed in about 1960 when aircraft were introduced and since then we have included other vessels, like the 'Jervis Bay', the tanker 'British Pride' and 'Ark Royal' in 1972. The average life of one of these vessels is 20 to 25 years.
Many changes have taken place over the years. We are always trying to improve this unique attraction and the technical difficulties we encounter can be quite considerable. It is, of course, the smallest manned navy in the world and we are very proud of the fact that the show is known and has been reported in all parts of the world. It has been shown on both BBC and ITV networks but it must be remembered that this is a holiday show - lots of fun and a jolly good battle. Furthermore everyone lives to fight another day!
The first performance for the season takes place on Spring Bank Holiday, followed by shows in June, July and August. All shows lasting around half an hour.
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1. Melt butter in large skillet and add garlic. Cook over low heat until garlic is soft.
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2.2 How Does 802.11ac Go So Fast?
2.3 How Do We Make 802.11ac Robust?
2.3.2 Differences Between 802.11ac and 802.11n
2.3.3 Standards-Based Beamforming
2.3.4 RTS/CTS with Bandwidth Indication
2.3.6 Channelization and 80+80 MHz
2.3.10 802.11ac Project Authorization Request
4.2 When to Upgrade to 802.11ac?
4.3 Radio Resource Management and WIPS Effects
1. Executive Summary
• More channel bonding, increased from the maximum of 40 MHz in 802.11n, and now up to 80 or even 160 MHz (for 117% or 333% speed-ups, respectively)
• Denser modulation, now using 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), up from 802.11n's 64QAM (for a 33% speed burst at shorter, yet still usable, ranges)
• More multiple input, multiple output (MIMO). Whereas 802.11n stopped at four spatial streams, 802.11ac goes all the way to eight (for another 100% speed-up).
2. What Is 802.11ac?
2.1 Drivers for 802.11ac
• Seemingly "instantaneous" data transfer experience
• A pipe fat enough that delivering high quality of experience (QoE) is straightforward
• Delivering network with enterprise-class speeds and latencies
• High-density environments with scores of clients per AP
– Which are exacerbated by the BYOD trend such that one employee might carry two or even three 802.11 devices and have them consuming network resources all at once
• The increased adoption of video streaming
Figure 1. How 802.11ac Accelerates 802.11n
2.2 How Does 802.11ac Go So Fast?
Table 1. Calculating the Speed of 802.11n and 802.11ac
Figure 2. Evolution of Cisco APs with 802.11 Physical Layer Amendments
Table 2. Important Data Rates of 802.11a, 11n, and 11ac
2.3 How Do We Make 802.11ac Robust?
2.3.1 Technology Overview
Table 3. Primary Ingredients of 802.11ac
2.3.2 Differences Between 802.11ac and 802.11n
2.3.3 Standards-Based Beamforming
2.3.4 RTS/CTS with Bandwidth Indication
Figure 3. RTS/CTS Enhanced with Bandwidth Signalling
2.3.5 All A-MPDUs
2.3.6 Channelization and 80+80 MHz
Figure 4. 802.11ac Channelization (United States)
Figure 5. Example of Parallel Transmissions with Two BSSs on the Same 80 MHz but with Different Primary 20-MHz Subchannels
• The enhanced secondary CCA thresholds mandated by 802.11ac, which are up to 13 dB more stringent than the secondary channel CCA thresholds defined by 802.11n
• The addition of a bandwidth indication to the RTS/CTS exchange (see section 2.3.4)
Figure 6. Channel Options for 160 MHz and 80+80 MHz
• Avoid channels with radar (if present).
• Uniformly spread the channel bandwidth used by each AP and preferably spread the AP's primary 20 MHz channel too.
• Tend to avoid a channel that overlaps with other 20, 40, 80, 160, or 80+80 MHz APs nearby.
• Within an 80 MHz channel bandwidth (for example), decide whether to align primary 20 MHz channels with other APs or deliberately not to align primary channels. This is not a clear-cut choice:
– If the primary channels are aligned, then virtual carrier sense works completely, yet all 20/40 MHz traffic (including broadcast, multicast, and data traffic to 802.11a/n devices) is sent in series. During these times, 40 or 60 MHz of bandwidth is unused. Still, if the clients are predominantly 802.11ac, then this is generally the best approach in terms of throughput and airtime fairness.
– Conversely, if one AP's primary channel is assigned to the lower 40 MHz and another AP's channel is assigned to the upper 80 MHz, then 20/40 MHz traffic can be parallelized (as per Figure 5). If clients are predominantly 802.11a/802.11n, then this is the better choice. And when the whole 80 MHz is free, as measured by physical carrier sense and/or RTS/CTS with bandwidth indication, then 80 MHz communication between 802.11ac devices is still allowed.
2.3.7 Rate at Range
Figure 7. Simulation of Rate at Range for 802.11ac
2.3.8 Regulatory
• In some regulatory domains, new rules are needed for devices to transmit 80, 160, and/or 80+80 MHz waveforms at all:
– Effective March 2012, >40 MHz operation is allowed in the United States, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and South Africa, and no obstacle is expected in multiple other countries.
– A few countries might only allow 80 MHz or 802.11ac operation after it is ratified by IEEE.
• In some regulatory domains, new tests are needed for devices that 160 and/or 80+80 MHz waveforms across adjacent subbands where the present rules allow this (for example, 5.15-5.25, 5.25, and 5.35 GHz).
• In some regulatory domains, new rules are needed to allow the transmission of waveforms across adjacent subbands where the rules presently don't allow this (for example, below and above 5.725 GHz, also known as channel 144).
• 802.11ac devices (and other unlicensed devices) suffer from reduced access to spectrum containing time domain weather radars in and around 5.6-5.65 GHz.
• Due to the wider bandwidth of 802.11ac, there are strong market desires to open up new spectrum, for instance, in the 5.35-5.47 GHz band (which enables two new 80 MHz channels and one new 160 MHz channel):
– See, for instance, U.S. Act of Congress HR 3630, which empowers the NTIA to study opening up this band to unlicensed use.
Figure 8. MU-MIMO Using Combination of Beamforming and Null Steering to Multiple Clients in Parallel
2.3.10 802.11ac Project Authorization Request
3. When Is 11ac Happening?
Figure 9. Timeline for 802.11ac Standardization and Certification
4. How Does 11ac Affect Me?
4.1 Compatibility
Table 4. Compatibility and Coexistence of 802.11a, 802.11n, and 802.11ac Devices
4.2 When to Upgrade to 802.11ac?
4.3 Radio Resource Management and WIPS Effects
5. Summary
Appendix: What Is 802.11n?
• Multiple input, multiple output (MIMO). MIMO brings with it a host of benefits:
– Greater speed without an increase in spectrum consumption using spatial multiplexing (SM). SM splits up the data into pieces and sends each piece along parallel "spatial" channels in a fraction of the time that it would take to send the same data serially. Without SM, 802.11n maxes out at 150 Mbps. With SM, 300 and 450 Mbps are available as long as both transmitter and receiver have at least two and three antennas (and RF chains), respectively.
– Greater uplink reliability. Due to multipath, an AP with four antennas receives four copies of a client's signal. Each copy is distorted (constructively or destructively) in four very different ways, so the likelihood that all copies are destructively faded all at the same time is very low. Thus the MIMO equalizer within the receiver can gather all these copies, cleverly combine them, and achieve greater reliability, delivering more predictable data rates and fewer retries. Of course an AP with fewer antennas can't do as well, particularly when the number of spatial streams climbs up toward the number of receive antennas.
– Greater downlink reliability (maybe). Here 802.11n offers beamforming (with outstanding benefits), space time block coding (useful benefits but inferior to beamforming), and cyclic delay diversity (with very modest benefits). Yet 802.11n offers many incompatible flavors of beamforming, each involving client assistance, and the industry has never put its weight behind any one of them. Thus beamforming is only practically available from techniques that don't expect assistance from the client such as Cisco ClientLink. Beamforming is particularly valuable due to the vulnerability of low-antenna count devices to destructive fading.
• Channel bonding. By doubling the channel bandwidth from 20 to 40 MHz, a single transmission can carry twice as much data in the same time. Actually, the gain is slightly more than two times since the guard band between the two traditional 20 MHz channels can be used as well.
• Aggregation. If the PHY is the engine of a car that generates great power, the MAC is like the car transmission, which is responsible for efficiently delivering the power to the wheels.
Before 802.11n, each 802.11a data frame comes with various overheads such as the preamble for the frame, often an acknowledgement frame, and any time gaps between and around these transmissions. When the data size gets smaller than this overhead, then speeding up the data payload doesn't increase the effective speed by that much. The MAC is throwing away the power.
Figure 10. Forms of Aggregation Introduced by 802.11n
802.11n addressed this concern using two aggregation techniques: the "intuitively" named A-MSDU and A-MPDU, which can also be combined together, as in "A-MPDU of A-MSDU." With aggregation, the data is packed together in a single unit that is sent with one preamble and acknowledged in one transmission. A-MSDU aggregates MSDUs (for example, LLC+IP+TCP+data) at the top of the MAC transmission path, so an individual MSDU in an A-MSDU lacks a MAC header/footer, such as a sequence number or frame check sequence. This is good for efficiency yet makes retries at the individual MSDU level impossible. Meanwhile, A-MPDU aggregates MPDUs at the bottom of the MAC, so each MPDU in an A-MDPU contains its own MAC header. Efficiency is not quite as good, especially for short MSDUs, but if a packet fails to get through the wireless link - for example, from a single isolated bit error - then the other MDPUs can still be received correctly, and only the erroneous packet needs to be retried. This is shown in Figure 10.
• Channel access for 40 MHz. Perhaps the fundamental reason for the success of 802.11 is that anyone can install an AP or use a client, regardless of what other 802.11 devices are already nearby, and mostly it all "just works."
This comes from a MAC design goal that channel access be reasonably efficient and fair to all, regardless of number of devices, distance to AP, device capability, and so forth - put succinctly as "your packet is as important as my packet." We see the efficiency goal in the range of MAC techniques to reduce collisions, such as physical carrier sense (don't transmit if you hear a lot of energy) and virtual carrier sense (don't transmit while someone told you they'd be transmitting or receiving). We see the fairness goal in that each device is only permitted to transmit after meeting the same carrier sense and collision avoidance requirements.
However, 40 MHz brings real challenges to both collision avoidance and fairness since it is either cost-prohibitive or impossible to maintain accurate physical carrier sense and virtual carrier sense on two 20 MHz subchannels in parallel. Instead a "primary" 20 MHz channel is defined with the usual tight requirements on carrier sense and collision avoidance, augmented by a degraded physical carrier sense on the "secondary" 20 MHz. When a device wants to transmit, it performs channel access in the usual way4 - all on the primary 20 MHz subchannel. Also, immediately before the device can transmit a 40 MHz packet, the device inspects the physical carrier sense state of the secondary channel for a short duration to make sure that the secondary channel is clear too. If clear, the 20 MHz packet is sent; otherwise the device can either (1) transmit a 20 MHz packet on the primary 20 MHz channel or (2) back off again, then recheck if the full 40 MHz is clear. Remarkably, this simple scheme is reasonably fair, and option (1) is reasonably efficient.
Still, in some topologies, devices on the secondary 20 MHz are treated unfairly with respect to the 40 MHz devices, and so 802.11n has additional channel selection rules to try to avoid this scenario in the first place. These rules work pretty well given the large number of 40 MHz channels available at 5 GHz.


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This recipe provides a "rainbow of foods" for National Nutrition Month.By: Herald Staff Report, Grand Forks Herald
This recipe provides a "rainbow of foods" for National Nutrition Month.
Walnut-Crusted Chicken Breasts
2 slices 100 percent whole-wheat bread, dried
1/3 cup walnuts, toasted
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
Coarse salt and ground pepper
1 large egg white
4 chicken breast halves, boneless and skinless
1 tablespoon canola oil
Lemon slices, for serving
Salad greens for serving
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In food processor, combine bread, walnuts and cheese; season with salt and pepper. Process until fine bread crumbs form. Transfer to bowl. In another bowl, beat egg white. Season chicken with salt, pepper. Dip breasts into egg white. Let excess drip off. Dip into crumb mixture, pressing to adhere. In nonstick, ovenproof skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add chicken. Cook until lightly browned. Turn chicken over. Put skillet in oven. Bake until chicken is golden brown. Serve with lemon, green salad.
Yield: Serves 4.
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In one giant fusion of music power, The Foo Fighters will be coming together with Deadmau5, Chris Brown, David Guetta and Lil' Wayne for an electronic music tribute at this year's Grammy Awards on Sunday.
It seems a bit weird to see the Foos in there, considering how old school they are, but then again they're nominated for Best Remix for their single Rope, which was spliced up by Deadmau5. Better yet, the performance will be on an open air stage outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Anybody remember when they caused a minor earthquake during a performance in New Zealand last year? Let's see how loud they'll get here.
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