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Secure Communities Program: White House Edict Forces State Participation
The White House has informed Governors that they are forbidden from opting out of the Department of Homeland Security's controversial Secure Communities (SComm) program. The plan mandates the cooperation of federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies in the identification, arrest, and deportation of criminal aliens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the branch of DHS tasked with managing the program.
Senators Snowe, DeMint Declare All 47 Republican Senators Support Balanced Budget Amendment
Time Magazine Constitution Poll Reveals MIxed Results
As part of its July 4, 2011 cover story on the relevance of the Constitution, Time magazine included the results of a poll of Americans on several issues germane to that topic.
Time Magazine Cover Story Asks: Does the Constitution Still Matter?
The cover of the July 4, 2011 issue of Time magazine depicts a shredded Constitution superimposed with the question: "Does it still matter?" The tone of the cover article makes Time's answer to that question obvious.
The Establishment Clause
In a letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier." Constitutionalists surely sympathize with the Sage of Monticello when they read the chronicling of the evisceration of our Constitution that is printed daily in newspapers around the country.
Polls Show 1 in 5 Americans Support Right to Secession
Earlier in the month a headline on the Rasmussen Report website reported that "21% say states have right to secede."
That figure was derived from the results of a survey of 1,000 adults conducted on May 30-31, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error was +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
Obama "Signs" Patriot Act Extension From Afar — Via Autopen
As reported by The New American, on Thursday, May 6 Congress passed a four-year extension of the unconstitutional powers included in the Patriot Act. These unprecedented powers include allowing the federal government to search records and use wiretaps of terrorism suspects without satisfying the conditions of the Fourth Amendment.
Do Naval Academy Mealtime Prayers Violate the Constitution?
A recent op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun accused the United States Naval Academy of "defying the Constitution — specifically the First Amendment."
President's Announced Immigration Policy Unconstitutional
In 1964 President Adolfo López Mateos of Mexico and President Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States met on the border separating their two nations to celebrate the official end of the 100-year-long dispute regarding the precise location of the international boundary.
Former UN Ambassador: Obama Will Target Gun Ownership in Second Term
In 2012, were the American people to go to the ballot box and deposit their vast political capital in the account of Barack Obama, the word is that he will use it to fund a vigorous anti-gun crusade.


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So I don't see hardly anything on here about this but does anyone have a wakeskate board that they would like to part with? Thinking it looks fun so I was going to give it a go this summer but not wanting to buy a brand new board to see if I like it or not. Size would be 39-43, but would like to be around a 41 or 42. Let me know and thanks in advance.
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After all the talk, and Barbara Walters putting lipstick on PIAPS, this should not be a surprise. If you follow the meaning of "State Department" in article, Herself is the boss. So, what it says and actions are Hillary´s.We [GOP] should NOT let this go unpunished, especially she is quoted early on as saying that the murder of Ambassador Stevens and the other three men in Benghazi is her responsibility. We need all the data collected by the State Department to be made public. After the first 9-11, the non-protecting of the Ambassador overseas for any reason is criminal.
Was there any doubt?
These people need jail time
The only reason for hillary not to testify is a hair salon appointment.
Whatever happened to subpoena power?
Of course she has to testify. This is to get McCain or some other weak link arguing that the meeting can be behind closed doors. Subpoena her and make her lie under oath in public. This was un-American and criminal, and the President and the Secretary of State bear all the responsibility.
None of these liars want to testify under oath, and the regime sure doesn´t want them to...
#4 LOL. What is with her hair anyway? One photo she had stringy, greasy hair, in another a ponytail!
I can´t see the shallow American people voting for a old woman who has cankles, greasy hair, dark circles under eyes, and just plain ´ol ugly dumpy frumpy clothes on a worn-out bloated body for POTUS!
I would like to hear from some of the survivors that the MSM can´t seem to find and hear there story
The Benghazi 32 are probably being held in Gitmo until Hillary resigns and The Lyin King is sworn in for a second of five terms.
The Imperial Presidency has an Imperial SOS.Surprise.I have been expecting her to use illness as the excuse and step down right around Christmas. Then she can stall into next year until no one is interested.
Movie or no movie as the cause is not important.What is all important is who said do not send help. This movie thing and a lie about it is one thing but not sending or holding back help is Murder.Everybody please stop with any and all movie is or is not the cause and focus on who gave the order not to send help.
She wouldn´t be able to recall anything anyhow.
If she shows up, she won´t testify. She knows that they know she sent Stevens on his oversight of arms for terrorists mission.... Too bad for him she didn´t allow his security detail to even have arms.
Whatever is going on, the wagons are circled around Hillary. You know, she really is as bad as Obama in that she gets away with absolutely anything she wants to do. Republicans, all media just scared of her. It´s all very distressing.
I´m shocked.
Heeeerrrrreeee comes the excuses..
She will testify behind closed doors -late in the evening of Dec 24th.


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I am just in between flights right now at the Dallas Fort Worth airport. I had a burrito and now am chewing on gum. I am feeling quite tired. I wish I brought more books. I finished "Girl Who PLayed with Fire" now I only have one book left of that series, which I still need to purchase. Sad that Steig Larsson passed away after the books were completed. I am feeling okay right now. Just can't wait to get home to my Ella cat and cuddle with her. I know she misses me. I don't know why I suddenly got in a weird mood. I should be happy! I wrote a couple new jokes that I am excited to try out soon! I think it's just the thought of life that gets me freaked out. I do that too much. I think about existence.
Pajamas, pajamas, pajamas is what I am craving right now! Pajamas and kitty! Yes yes yes!
Oh boy I had a Dunkin' Donuts coffee this morning and I peed 4 times on the three hour flight. Clearly coffee makes my weak bladder worse, but coffee is great and I know it will serve me good at times when I need to wake up.
I know I am going to be traveling a lot in the Fall but I have to make sure that I organize to only travel twice a month. I know that anymore than that I will feel drained and angry from dealing with planes and airports. Its the only thing I absolutely hate about this job. Every job has pro's and con's and this is definitely mine.
Okay well I am going to now try to meditate before this next flight.
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With a full line of affordable hand- wired amps, VHT has nestled into a comfortable corner of the vast, sometimes overwhelming amp marketplace. Building much of its line overseas allows the company to offer working musicians a taste of boutique quality amplification for a fraction of the price. And VHT's designers do their homework, producing amplifiers based on venerable tone platforms we know and love, yet enhancing them with tweaks that serve modern players' needs.
The Special 12/20 RT combo we have in for review this month is a shining example of the VHT design philosophy. Like the
VHT Special 6, the 12/20 RT is based on golden age American combos, but delivers more usable volume than its little brother, plus expanded tone-shaping control and amazing effects-pedal friendliness. Loaded with a 12" VHT ChromeBack speaker, the 12/20 RT is meant to be a portable, throbbing nerve center in your rig, not just another link in the chain.
Clean Layout, Robust Controls A quick scan of the 12/20 RT's controls will tell you that this little beast offers much more tweakability than the vintage Fenders it's based on. Let's start with tube selection.
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The amp ships with 6V6 power tubes, but is designed to accommodate easy tube swaps, allowing you to obtain your favorite valve flavors with ease. Your tube choice affects the amp's volume as well: Set the high/low power voltage switch behind the removable rear panel to low volt position for 6V6s or EL84s and 12-watt output, or select the high volt position for 6L6s or EL34s and 20-watt output—hence the 12/20 moniker. At these output levels, we have something of a Princeton Reverb/Deluxe Reverb hybrid


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Source: Tech Cocktail - "You can tell the success of an entrepreneur by how tan they are." This was Matt Galligan's opening statement referencing the much darker complexion of the Los Angeles native Howard Leonhardt at the recent Tech Cocktail San Francisco Sessions. And by this standard, Los Angeles is an assembly line of successful tech entrepreneurs.
But if 300 days of sunlight and beautiful beaches aren't enough to lure you, Tech Cocktail caught up with a host of LA-based entrepreneurs to convince you on why Los Angeles is such an ideal location to both work and live.
The entertainment industry brings together talent, creativity, and capital in a way that creates a one of kind atmosphere. The result is a truly unique melting pot of skills to build new products.
Andrew K Kirk, founder at Face The Buzz Marketing
Los Angeles is the second largest city with over 18 million people. Everyone is on their grind and there are limitless opportunities to find your niche as a startup. The city is flooded with billboards and bus ads, evidence that old models are still profitable. However, the need for technology innovation is rising, and with a large market and little competition, LA is fertile ground.
Nikhil Jhunjhnuwala, co-founder of myRight
LA's laid back and tight knight community make it an ideal place for a startup because it helps unleash your creativity because you're fueled by so many different sectors – technology, the beach and the entertainment capital of the world. No better place to innovate!
Shivani Siroya, CEO and founder at InVenture
LA is the greatest place to live because everyone who comes to LA is a dreamer who thinks that the impossible is possible…and then does their damndest to make it so. Then, quite a few succeed. Practicality is not a constraint that binds Angelenos like it does to people in most other cities in the world.
Alicia Yaffe, Founder and CEO at The Spellbound Group
It's 2pm and if you're hustling for a startup, chances are you're already on your second or third cup of coffee. I know I am! In LA, we have access to some really great coffee, including two-Intelligentsias, Handsome Roasters, etc. Need I say more?
Sen Sugano, Director of Business Development at Grubwithus
Living in LA means visiting Chinatown, Thaitown or Little Armenia is always a short trip from home. Though parts of our city may feel like sleepy suburbs they are rich with culture as we are host to immigrants from all over the world. This means that Angelinos are the recipients of fine and fun cuisine, art, history, textiles and language. Our days are spent meeting people whose childhoods may bear little semblance to our own. Living in a culturally rich city leads to innovations both personal and professional.
Jessica Gottlieb, Founder at JessicaGottlieb.com
Sure the weather is great and the beach is sandy. But we also build companies that make a ton of money. Few people know that 96% of Google's revenue comes from the work of two LA companies (the Adwords model was invented by Overture, and Adsense came through an acquisition of Applied Semantics). There's less capital here than in Silicon Valley, so building companies that make money from the beginning is in our DNA – lead gen, flash sales, eCommerce, etc. If you have a solid business model, LA is the place to be.
Dmitri Leonov, Hustler at SaneBox
Whether you are doing business or relaxing, which become one in the same, where else can you wake to sunshine/fair weather, 350+ days annually, meet and conduct business with associates outside regularly, have tepid weather, while balancing work and play – Los Angeles!
Mitch Ellner, CEO and Founding Partner CNC Strategy
With all of the entertainment companies and The Mouse alone, Los Angeles has some of the most creative genius and wit I have ever seen. Even our techies are more creative than the creative team I had when I lived in the Big D! You gotta play to your strengths!
Frank Mastronuzzi, Chief Love Officer at OneGoodLove.com
With the rise of tech startups and activity in LA, a large influx of resources has followed. Entrepreneurs here have a wealth of options to gain support.
Andrew K Kirk, again
Ready to make Los Angeles Your Home?
Good, because you can. Check out the jobs below (or browse through the Los Angeles Jobs Listing) to see which is the ideal fit for you.
Source: TIME - You could spend your day in L.A. at the Universal Studios theme park and the attached City Walk outdoor mall. (Maybe you've got kids with you. Maybe you're a dork. I don't know.) Or you could take a picture of the Hollywood sign. (No, you can't drive to it. You can't even walk to it; there's a fence. So, from Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, turn uphill onto Beachwood Canyon Drive and take a photo halfway up the street. Or park at the end of Beachwood and hike 30 minutes to get really close.) You could stroll down Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theater and look at all the celebrity handprints and footprints, pose for photos with the weirdos who dress up as superheroes and ask you for money, then go hang out the Hollywood and Highland Center mall. You could spend the day gawking at the expensive stores on the twisty part of Rodeo Drive. You could drive 45 minutes south to Disneyland, for all I care. But you won't have seen L.A. Here's how I would spend my time in L.A., on my first trip or my tenth... Continue reading at TIME
Apparently this place has some famous art, like Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, and lots of important documents, such as a Gutenberg Bible, a copy of The Canterbury Tales and two quartos of Hamlet. But no one goes inside.
The Huntington's 120 acres of botanical gardens are endless and amazing — and I don't even like plants. It's not just rose gardens or herb gardens — they've got full-on ecosystems: a Japanese garden, Chinese garden, jungle, desert, lily ponds, a subtropical garden. It's crazy in there. And if you call ahead, you can have high tea.
Or, since you're right near Pasadena, you can have lunch at Pie 'n Burger instead. L.A. may not have the best high-end dining in the country, but we have the best burgers: Try Father's Office, 25 Degrees or The Counter.
I know, a museum in L.A. — crazy, right? Don't worry, I'm not sending you there for the art. In L.A., you go see high culture for the architecture. The Los Angeles Philharmonic, for example, is really good, but if you're at the symphony, you're really there to check out Frank Gehry's stainless-steel Disney Concert Hall.
The Getty Trust may have more money to throw around on art than any museum in the world, but you go to the Getty Center to take a tram up a huge hill, enter the perfectly simple, calming, Richard Meier–designed space, stroll around the gardens — and maybe see a painting. Unlike museums in cities that don't own the entertainment industry, the Getty is always free.
If you are from anyplace other than Japan, you will be really impressed with our sushi. Great sushi joints grow like weeds in crappy looking strip malls on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, the heart of the San Fernando Valley. They're not cheap, but they're all worth it. Asanebo is my favorite, but Katsu-ya with its seared albacore with crispy onions has blossomed into a mini-chain here. Another solid option: Teru Sushi. The competition is so intense that you can't go wrong here. Plus, you get to go to the Valley, which is our version of suburbia but has become oddly cool.
If you firebombed L.A. and obliterated its strip-mall ugliness, you'd see how pretty this place is. That's because of the ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains, which we, along with anyone who watches MTV, call "the Hills."
The plastic, Beverly Hills types notwithstanding, L.A. is divided into two kinds of residents: ocean people (rich, mellow, beach-front-dwelling yuppie/hippies) and hill people (grungy, hip urban cowboys, who eventually have kids and move to the beach). The ocean people surf and run and bike along the water. Us hill people, we hike. We hike obsessively. And the good-looking people hike Runyon. You might see famous people here, but you won't even notice them because you'll be blinded by the hotness of merely struggling actors and actresses. Plus, you'll get a workout — from panting at hot people.
Yes, Melrose Avenue is a funkier place to shop with way cooler clothes, and Rodeo Drive has all the famous stores, but the sad fact is it's lame to go home without having seen a celebrity in L.A. And Robertson Boulevard — the tiny stretch of horribleness that includes the Ivy restaurant and boutiques like Kitson and Madison — is where Us Weekly photos are born. Once you've ogled someone famous, have lunch at the Newsroom Cafe, a vegetarian-friendly restaurant that is the only normal place on the block. If you somehow stroll this street and don't see a celebrity and don't mind paying $100 per person to do it, push your way past the paparazzi outside the Ivy and try to get a table for lunch.
Zuma beach in Malibu is awfully L.A. — hot moms, surfer dudes, Pamela Anderson (she lives right near there). Walking past the freaks in Venice selling their pot paraphernalia and working out at Muscle Beach (Arnold Schwarzenegger's old gym) is also interesting. Or you could drive all the way down to Manhattan Beach where the corporate frat boys drink beer and play volleyball with their trophy girlfriends.
Personally, I'd go to Zuma in Malibu, where the hills meet the ocean (and where you can park for free on Westward Beach Road, right off the Pacific Coast Highway). Then I'd grab dinner at the Reel Inn, where you eat simply grilled fish from a tray at picnic tables. Or I'd get Greek food at Taverna Tony at the Malibu Country Mart, the outdoor mall where the locals hang out.
If you have time for a long lunch in the middle of the day in Malibu, go to the Malibu Family Wines vineyard, do a tasting and buy one of their surprisingly good bottles to drink at the winery's picnic tables with the veggie burger — trust me on that — you got at John's Garden Fresh Health Store at the Country Mart.
Don't go downtown during rush hour, which is basically all the time. But if you do make it, stop at this little tourist block that was the original center of Los Angeles in Spanish-owned times. Amidst the souvenir shops (Mexican wrestling masks! Scarface posters!) is Mr. Churro, where you should get a caramel-filled churro. You can also eat at one of the good Mexican restaurants here, or you can go a block over and get the amazing lamb French dip sandwich at Philippe's, the sawdust-covered counter restaurant that's been around since 1908. Or drive a few blocks to Langer's, where to everyone's shock they make a better pastrami sandwich than any deli in New York City. The secret is that L.A. is actually more Jewish than Manhattan.
Walk off lunch by heading to the curvy, metal Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the new church — who knew they were still building churches? — that redefines Catholic grandiosity by using restraint.
The Universal Studios lot is great, but you have to go to the theme park for that tour. So, take the WB Studio Tour instead, or arrange a tour of one of the other big studios near wherever you're staying (Fox, if you're by the beach). Mostly they're all just huge, generic, windowless warehouses that act as soundstages, but each lot has a block of cool New York City facades; plus, WB has the Gilmore Girls' sweet, fake perfect town and, for some reason, Universal still has its Old West set. Either way, it's just fun to see people in silly costumes driving around in golf carts.
Remember the scene in Swingers where that old couple sings standards to a bunch of hipsters? That couple, Marty and Elayne, still sings Cole Porter songs to those hipsters at the Dresden Room (every night except Sunday), which is a supercool place to get a drink, relax and feel like you're in Rat Pack–era Vegas.
Source: TIME - This is just an outdoor mall. It is full of cheesy tourists and teenagers. I'm not entirely sure why I'm recommending it. But it's outside and three blocks from the beach — and malls are just so L.A. Almost as good, mallwise, is The Grove in the Fairfax District. The Grove's trolley, which travels the one block between the mall and the excellent nearby Farmers Market, where every single booth sells awesome food, is the only public transportation most Angelinos ever use. Continue reading at TIME.
Source: SFGate.com - [My dearest friend] Andrew Zenoff was a single guy in his late 20s when he happened upon an idea to make it easier for new moms to breastfeed their babies. So though he'd never even held a baby before, Zenoff pursued the idea and introduced the My Brest Friend, a pillow that helps mothers hold and support their babies while they breastfeed...
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DUPLEX keeping it real
Thank you and merry christmas!!!
anyone got a torrent link?
I'm glad that they've proved they can fix Eboot.bin files and not just PSN games/updates. Hope to see more fixes in the future.
This is great... I've been playing for the past 2 hours... it works!!
I do hope so. I hope that the EBOOT.BIN they patched to is not from Debug servers.
But anyway, I really don't care, as long as we can play the games of 3.55 without the that dumb dongle.


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Monday, March 4, 2013 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
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Lucas is a 2 year old, male, Chihuahua mix. This loveable boy does well with other dogs his size walks wonderfully on a leash.
Kiddo is an adult, male, Hemingway whose extra toes are pointing right at you! Kiddo can be seen at Pet Food Warehouse (727) 521-6191.
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Who better to "examin[e] everything from teacher recruitment and performance, to whether the current school calendar is appropriate, and how the state's more than 700 school districts are structured" than a "retired Citibank Chair and Time Warner President Richard Parsons . . . the SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, State Education Commissioner John King, and the chairs of the Senate and Assembly Education committees, as well as private sector advocate[s] . . . Geoffrey Canada." At least that is the thought process of Governor Cuomo.
This is the makeup and charge of Guomo's newly appointed education commission that includes a banker, a businessmen, a lawyer, two politicians, and an educator thrown in for good measure.
It is unclear how, but the Governor expects this group to be more interested in the educational needs of children than "the priorities of the financial interests." Cuomo also named Randi Weingarten to the panel with no response from the President of the American Federation of Teachers.
There are however no parents on the panel, no education advocates, no students, no in-class or even retired teachers or administrators on the panel, except for Geoffrey Canada. This is no surprise since this is almost the same make-up as the State's Board of Regents.
Is there any wonder why our system of education is in the failing condition that it is? Both locally and in the State, businessmen, lawyers, and politicians are running the educational show and have been doing so for years. And for years, education, locally and in the State, has been failing our children miserably.
We, the people of the United States, have the ultimate say in the policies our elected officials create and the decisions they make. When our voices are not heard the educational failure our children experience is not attributable to those we elected, the onus is on us for continuing to re-elect the individuals who choose not to listen. Our voice is our vote, it is time we speak up.
Our children suffer educationally and because of the lack of an excellent education provided our society suffers with them.
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Smile Friday: How cute is this sloth bear playing like puppy in India?!
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Live in the area so we were not staying there but went for breakfast. Amazingly good and really affordable...especially if you get the family style. My wife received a massage and nail treatment last year for Christmas and said it was really nice. Our friends that we ate with said the massages were great too.
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Critics of 3G submit new petitions to Ombudsman
- Published: 5 Dec 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
Critics of the 3G bandwidth auction have filed new petitions attempting to suspend the award of licences to the three telecom firm bid winners.
The moves by the Group of 40 Senators and the Green Politics Group came despite the Administrative Court's decision to clear the way for the national frequency regulator to proceed with licensing.
Senator Paiboon Nititawan petitioned the Office of the Ombudsman yesterday on behalf of the Group of 40. The group is asking the Ombudsman to request a Constitution Court ruling on whether the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission's (NBTC) telecom committee is authorised to endorse the results of the 3G licence auction.
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Lebowski wrote:I really like this thing and sincerely hope they'll be a big success. It reminds me of my youth
when there were lots of 2CV's and Beetles around. IMHO the Twizy has a cuteness factor which
puts it in the same league.
Lebowski wrote:Would I spend 7000 euro on it ? No. The Twizy is open (no doors / side windows) and has
no heating / ventilation system making it unsuitable for bad/cold weather driving.
Lebowski wrote:I think the battery leasing scheme is smart. It reduces the vehicle purchase price but
much much better, it allows for a battery swapping scheme. If you look at the Renault
website, they're gearing up for battery swapping stations. You drive up in your Renault
electric car, a robot will open the battery compartment and swap your empty battery
for a full one in less than 3 minutes without you needing to get out of the vehicle.
amberwolf wrote:In the USA, I think most people would look at it and see "Golf Cart", and dismiss it out of hand, without bothering to listen or look any further.
If they actually release it here, it'd need a heck of a marketing campaign to get going against that visual perception, and it would also have to have closeable lockable doors for most people. Lots of places, it would also have to have a heating system, and air conditioning, or it simply wouldn't get used.
There is a lot to fight against in the mindsets of people here, so I don't expect they'd even try sell it in the USA, not until marketing has changed what people expect from a car.
rojitor wrote:It's been for sale in my country one year ago, i have never seen it though. It is perfect for a big city commute but not for long trips, i guess they sold just a few here, i hope it can success in your country.
rojitor wrote:I have just read the data... It's quite shocking, 197 electric cars sold in 2011. No wonder electric fails here, unless you can make your whole commute on a single charge you cannot use an ev. In my area there's only one place to charge an ev and has ridiculous prices: free power yet you pay for parking 2€ per hour so let's say 5 hous per charge it's 10€ to refuel it... Even more expensive than gas. Our government is claiming full support for ev's yet they are doing nothing, or worse than nothing because our ebike laws are made to make electric bikes not so desirable and made me an outlaw rider.
Lebowski wrote:They 80kmh Twizy is rated for 20 kW but, as we know, 2 or 3 times that much should be possible
(from the motor point of view) for short periods.
I'm starting to wonder, it would be a very cool project to get one and rip out all the electronics
untill you're left with only the 3 motor terminals. Then put in a high voltage battery
and try to build a 40 to 60 kW controller. 60 kW on a 450 kg (1000 pound) vehicle should
make for cool accelleration and burn-outs
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., March 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sevcon, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEV) today announced its selection by Renault to supply Gen4 controls for Renault's newly introduced Twizy two-seater, electric city car. Currently on sale and shipping to customers in Europe, the Twizy combines the comfort and safety amenities of an automobile — four wheels, disc brakes, seat belts and front airbag — with nimble urban handling and parking and a range of 100km (60 miles) on a single 3.5 hour battery charge.
Renault is offering the Twizy in two versions, with top speeds of 28 and 50 miles per hour powered by Sevcon Gen4 Size 2 and Size 4 motor controllers, respectively. These microprocessor-based devices regulate power delivery from the Twizy's lithium-ion battery to the motor, controlling acceleration, speed and regenerative braking while optimizing energy consumption.
"Renault's selection of our Gen4 controllers for the Twizy is a significant milestone for Sevcon as we continue to execute on our strategy to supplement sales to our customers in the industrial vehicle segment by capitalizing on opportunities in the on-road electric vehicle sector," said Sevcon President and CEO Matt Boyle. "We are proud to add Renault to our portfolio of global automotive OEM relationships and pleased with the progress we have made this month in ramping Gen4 controller production and shipments to support the Twizy launch."
Matthijs wrote:If I would buy one should it be possible to get it up to 62 mph instead of 50 mph just for the freeway and passing trucks?
Lebowski wrote:It sould be a fun project to get a Twizy, rip out the Sevcon and design something better myself
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Posted Feb 17, 2010 17:09 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]
We have good history through the BitKeeper era, which could easily extend the view back a few years. Prior to that, of course, it's a big mess, though we do have per-release resolution for the most part.
But, yes, wouldn't it be interesting to know how much of 2.4.x we're still running?
Posted Feb 17, 2010 17:57 UTC (Wed) by eli (guest, #11265) [Link]
I am picturing a different graph that I think might tell us more about kernel development than the bar graphs above.
The Y-axis would be the absolute number of lines of code, and the X-axis would be kernel releases.
Each kernel release would have a line that started at its release number. You'd have the total number of lines in the kernel marked for 2.6.12. Then you'd draw a line to the 2.6.13 release to show how many lines of 2.6.12 remained in 2.6.13, and you'd start a new line for 2.6.13 showing the total number of lines in 2.6.13. Each new release would add a new line on the graph. It should look a bit like strata layers or something.
Over time, you should see some patterns in how the releases get replaced over time. If one release was particularly badly done, we'd see it start out with a large number of lines of code at its release, and see it rapidly squeezed to a small number of lines of code by later releases.
I wonder if there is such a thing as a "code half-life"...
Posted Feb 19, 2010 22:32 UTC (Fri) by aegl (guest, #37581) [Link]
Here's a graph showing growth of the kernel, and decline of the original code:
Posted Feb 22, 2010 17:04 UTC (Mon) by aegl (guest, #37581) [Link]
The lowest line is the 2.6.12-rc2 git origin. Count up from there to 2.6.32 at the top. Scripts were run with current tip of "linus" tree at v2.6.33-rc8-113-gf8b55f2 so it doesn't take into account the 320 lines of code added and 149 deleted over the weekend.
Visually there does seem to be an inflection point around 2.6.27 where we slowed down at deleting old code (perhaps because there was so much new code to be deleted instead?)
Posted Feb 22, 2010 17:40 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I wonder if the inflection point can be attributed to the staging tree? (That's certainly a lot of new crap^Wcode to be deleted...)
Posted Feb 26, 2010 0:26 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
Posted Feb 26, 2010 14:44 UTC (Fri) by eli (guest, #11265) [Link]
'Course, now I need to stare at it for an hour looking for all the interesting things it's trying to tell me. ;)
Posted Feb 17, 2010 18:31 UTC (Wed) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
Posted Feb 17, 2010 18:35 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]
WoPDaSD 2010
Posted Feb 17, 2010 18:57 UTC (Wed) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link]
I'm on the Program Committee for the 5th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2010), and the paper deadline is coming up in March. I would really love to see you and/or other readers of LWN get this kind of data and analysis together as a workshop paper and submit it there. We don't get so many submissions from outside academia, and that's a shame—I'm confident that this work would be quite well-received.
Posted Feb 17, 2010 20:50 UTC (Wed) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]
Posted Feb 18, 2010 0:02 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]
"The full name of the compiler is "Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym", which is, for obvious reasons, abbreviated "INTERCAL"."
Posted Feb 18, 2010 7:48 UTC (Thu) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link]
Posted Feb 17, 2010 19:25 UTC (Wed) by marineam (subscriber, #28387) [Link]
I'm guessing writing a smarter script would be faster. :-P
Posted Feb 17, 2010 22:24 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
once this is done the combined archive can be treated as a single archive and I expect that the scripts used for this report could be used as-is (although it will obviously take longer)
IIRC, the historical git archive goes all the way back to the 0.0x days (although not without gaps)
David Lang
Posted Feb 17, 2010 22:31 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]
Posted Feb 17, 2010 22:38 UTC (Wed) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]
Posted Feb 23, 2010 0:34 UTC (Tue) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]
If anyone is interested, I can forward the ~210k archive of the program building the tree.
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REPORT SCOPE INTRODUCTION MOTIVATION Among the numerous categories in the evolving field of newly synthesized nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are perhaps among the most dynamic and undergoing the most rapid pace of development. The past five years have witnessed relentless growth in the research, development and technological understanding of these remarkable materials. Universities, small businesses and start-ups, as well as large corporations, have continued to probe and exploit numerous commercial possibilities for these fascinating materials. As a result, the list of product applications is expanding considerably and is projected to do so well into the future. The most tangible evidence for growth and interest is reflected by the emergence of new CNT producers now capable of offering CNTs in commercial-scale quantities—in kilograms, tonnes and even hundreds of tonnes, depending on the specific grade—at more affordable and increasingly competitive unit pricing. In addition, after several years of incubation, there is a new breed of more mature university spin-offs, or nanotechnology companies, targeting specific application sectors. Additional evidence of growth is the increasing presence of larger, more established corporations that recognize the future market opportunities offered by CNTs. Finally, over the past five years, there has been phenomenal growth in patent activity. In 2010 alone, the number of issued CNT-related U.S. patents reached 1,585, an increase of 54% over the previous year. In 2011, this increased more moderately, by 7.7%, but nonetheless reached an annual output record of 1,707. For patents pending, the situation is even more dramatic, with a cumulative backlog from 2001 to 2011 now totaling 16,775. For the current review period (2010 to 2011 total output alone reached 54% of the previous period (2001 to 2009). In view of the technical momentum—representing a multibillion-dollar technology investment—and the enormous business potential, this report provides a timely update on CNTs—their level of technical maturity, where they are starting to penetrate the marketplace, and when and where the broadening market unravels. OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT The primary objectives of this report are threefold:
SCOPE OF REPORT This updated report is divided into the following nine major chapters: CHAPTER THREE—TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW defines, outlines the history, describes the production methodology, identifies the unique properties of various forms of CNTs and emphasizes the major application challenges. CHAPTER FOUR—PATENT ANALYSIS provides an extensive search/analysis of U.S. issued and pending patents (along with Canadian, European and WPTO databases where there is no USPTO presence), a collation of the main technical/application sectors and identifies the most active organizations—U.S. and foreign—driving CNT technology. CHAPTER FIVE—INDUSTRY STRUCTURE AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS identifies current producers, progress in continuous production scale-up, market segmentation and an industry profile covering the major players. CHAPTER SIX—MARKETS BY APPLICATION represents the body of the report assessing the latest progress and technical readiness in the major application sectors of composites, electronics, energy storage, membranes, sensors and other applications. CHAPTER SEVEN—GLOBAL MARKET ANALYSIS estimates five-year potential revenues of all notable CNT producers. CHAPTER EIGHT—NORTH AMERICAN MARKET ANALYSIS estimates five-year potential revenues of U.S. and Canadian CNT producers. CHAPTER NINE—EUROPEAN MARKET ANALYSIS estimates five-year potential revenues of European CNT producers. CHAPTER TEN—ASIAN MARKET ANALYSIS estimates five-year potential revenues of Asian CNT producers. CHAPTER ELEVEN—MARKET PULL: PROGNOSIS FOR GLOBAL CNT APPLICATIONS identifies the most promising applications realizable based on the leading proponents, technical readiness and market interest. CONTRIBUTION OF THE STUDY AND TARGET AUDIENCE This report represents a major update to BCC Research's report, Carbon Nanotubes: Technologies and Global Markets, NAN024D, published in January 2010. The most significant revisions in this new edition include the following:
This comprehensive technical and business assessment on the current status of the CNT industry should prove informative to nanomaterials manufacturers, investors seeking near-term commercialization opportunities, technologists confronted with nanomaterial device integration issues and companies interested in exploiting revolutionary nanomaterials for advanced composites, biomedical, electronic, energy storage, membranes/separation, sensing, security and other emerging applications. METHODOLOGY AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION This report is primarily derived from the enormous amount of patent and technical literature relating to CNTs disclosed in the public domain. In addition, complementary information has also been drawn from the business community, such as company investment news, company profiles, press releases and personal telephone interviews with selected companies. AUTHOR'S CREDENTIALS John Oliver, the author of this report, is the founder of Innov8 Solutions, which provides advanced materials consultation services to industrial clients. He has more than 30 years of industrial R&D experience in surface and colloid science spanning a wide range of materials technology. Primarily, working as a senior scientist at Xerox Research Centre of Canada, he developed an invaluable understanding in advanced materials used in digital printing technologies such as xerography and ink-jet printing (IJP). In the past 10 years through his involvements with the Alberta Research Council and several Alberta universities, his interests have evolved into the realm of nanomaterials and microsystems device integration. He has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from McGill University, and a BSc degree in Chemistry from Surrey University, U.K. His publications include more than 40 technical peer-reviewed technical articles and 20 patents. Between 2005 and 2009, he was the editor of BCC's monthly Nanoparticle News and has authored five previous BCC Research's nanomaterial technical reports, Quantum Dots: Technical Status and Market Prospects (GB-278, NAN027B/NAN027C) and Carbon Nanotubes: Technologies and Commercial Prospects (NAN024C, NAN024D).
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Table of Contents Global Markets and Technologies for Carbon Nanotubes Chapter - 1: INTRODUCTION - Complimentary MOTIVATION OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT SCOPE OF REPORT CONTRIBUTION OF THE STUDY AND TARGET AUDIENCE METHODOLOGY AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION AUTHOR'S CREDENTIALS RELATED BCC REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS BCC ONLINE SERVICES DISCLAIMER Chapter - 2: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Table Summary: GLOBAL MARKET REVENUES FOR CNT GRADES BASED ON COMMITTED PRODUCTION ESTIMATES, THROUGH 2016 Figure Summary: GLOBAL MARKET FOR CNT GRADES BASED ON COMMITTED PRODUCTION, 2011-2016 Chapter - 3: TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW WHAT ARE CNTS? A BRIEF HISTORY OF NANOTUBES COMPARISON OF CARBON COMPOUNDS PROPERTIES OF CNTS APPLICATIONS OF CNTS OTHER TYPES OF NANOTUBE COMPOUNDS NANOTUBE PRODUCTION PURIFICATION AND PRODUCT QUALITY CONTROL CNT APPLICATIONS INTEGRATION CNT GROWTH AND DEVICE FABRICATION OTHER FORM FACTORS Figure 1: FORMATION OF A SWNT STRUCTURE Figure 2: CNT STRUCTURES Chapter - 4: PATENT ANALYSIS RATIONALE AND METHODOLOGY U.S. PATENTS ISSUED U.S. PATENTS PENDING CHALLENGES IN PATENTING NANOTECHNOLOGY
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Enjoy this selection of my favourites of The Daily Beast from 2012. Wishing you all the best of the season.
The Daily Beast returns January 7, 2012.
REUTERS/Phil Noble
An Asian short-clawed otter eats a fish in its enclosure at Chester Zoo in Chester, northern England, January 5, 2012. The smallest of the world's otter species are part of a breeding programme at the zoo as they are classed as being vulnerable in the wild.
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A black Labrador retriever says hello.
Dog plus ball equals game of fetch. Add water to the equation and it unleashes Fido's inner beast — a canine return to a more primal chase-and-capture instinct captured through animal "lifestyle" photographer Seth Casteel's submerged camera in backyard pools.
Humbree family photo
Lucas Hembree hugs Juno, his Belgian Maliois service dog that was rescued from a shelter when she was days away from being euthanized. Lucas, 4, from Alcoa, Tennessee has a very rare genetic disorder called Sanfilippo (pronounced San-fa-lee-po) Syndrome or also know as MPS III type A.Newspix / Rex Features
It was a race against the tide that pulled at the heartstrings. For three hours, show horse Astro was stuck neck deep in thick mud at Avalon Beach on Corio Bay, Australia as the tide inched closer.
Rescue crews first tried to pull the 18-year-old, 500kg horse free with fire hoses, and then a winch before a vet turned up to sedate Astro and pull him clear with a tractor.
The crews knew by 5pm that the tide would have come all the way in. But within minutes of the waters rising around him, Astro was being dragged up on to solid ground slowly but surely - the team filthy but ecstatic.
U.K. based photographers and brothers, Will Burrard-Lucas and Matt Burrard-Lucas embarked on a project to get unique close-up, ground level photographs of African wildlife in 2009. They built the BeetleCam - a remote controlled buggy with a DSLR camera mounted on top. Matt and Will travelled to Tanzania and used the buggy to get groundbreaking photographs of elephants and buffalo. However, they lost a camera and the BeetleCam was almost destroyed in the only encounter with a lion.
In 2011, two new BeetleCams were created, one with more advanced capabilities and one with an armoured shell. They returned to Africa to photograph the lions of the Masai Mara. BeetleCam received a battering but it survived, providing a spectacular portfolio of lion photographs, like this portrait of a male lion covered in flies.
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On tippee toes; a duckling tries to navigate its way over a curb near Ellis Lake in Marysville, California.
Matt Marriott/Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Busch Gardens Tampa celebrated a
milestone anniversary for a very special relationship. April 16th
marked the one-year anniversary of the first time park guests got to see
an 8-week-old male cheetah cub and a 16-week-old female yellow Labrador
puppy start to strike up a friendship that the park's animal experts
expect to last a lifetime.
CU Independent/Andy Duann
A bear that wandered into the CU-Boulder dorm complex Williams Village falls from a tree after being tranquilized by Colorado Wildlife officials. CU Police Spokesman Ryan Huff said the bear was likely 1-3 years old and weighed somewhere between 150-200 pounds.
AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson
In this combination photo, freshly shaved alpacas at Alpaca-Land farm, in Goeming in the Austrian province of Salzburg, April, 29, 2012. The annual shearing should be done in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months. This will give them plenty of time to grow a thick new coat before winter.
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A Bengal Tiger named Akasha dives into the water after a piece of meat at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on June 20, 2012 in Vallejo, California. On the first day of summer, temperatures in the San Francisco Bay Area ranged from the mid seventies by the coast to mid nineties inland.
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A kayaker watches a brown bear swimming in Anton Larsen Bay near Kodiak, Alaska, on July 13, 2012. Wendy Close Eskew, who operates kayak tours on Kodiak Island, said her group came across the 2 or 3-year-old animal as it swam from Whale Island to the shore of the bay, a distance of 4 miles. The bear eventually reached shore and ran unharmed into the brush, Eskew said.
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Anzac the joey and Peggy wombat share a snuggle together at the Wildlife Kilmore Rescue Centre in Victoria, Australia.
An orphaned kangaroo and wombat have found creature comfort with one another. Anzac the joey and Peggy wombat have become best friends after sharing a pouch together at the Wildlife Kilmore Rescue Centre in Victoria, Australia. At just over five months old, Anzac was brought to the centre after being rescued in the Macedon Ranges. Missing his mum, Anzac was placed with wombat Peggy and the two now sleep together. Worker Lisa Milligan said the unlikely friends are comforted by each other's movement and heartbeat. She said: "There are lots of baby animals about at the moment, and they are orphaned for a range of reasons". One of the reasons the lively duo get on so well is their similar personalities - with Anzac described as very social while Peggy is boisterous and cheeky.
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Zoologist Arthur Anker's captured these images of a Venezuelan poodle moth which has stirred the imaginations of viewers online. See more of Anker's incredible images on his Flickr site.
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Idaho Department of Fish and Game veterinarian Mark Drew, examines "Boo Boo". Drew said that the cub has second-degree burns on all four of his paws and needs daily medical care for the next four to six weeks.
A handout picture released
by Guinness World Records on September 13, 2012 and taken on November
3, 2011 shows 3 year-old Great Dane called Zeus (L) from Otsego,
Michigan in the US which is featured in the new Guinness World Records
2013 book as the tallest dog ever, measuring 111.8 cm (44 in) from foot
to withers and Zeus's owner Denise Doorlag (R). A Great Dane who towers
2.2 metres (7 feet 4 inches) on his hind legs is named the tallest dog
ever recorded in the latest Guinness Book of World Records launched on
September 13, 2012. The giant canine from Michigan in the United States
weighs in at 70.3 kilograms, the 57th edition of the global records book
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Susan Gell and Roy Rodgers, swim their horse Shoshoni in Loch Lomond on September 19,2012 in Luss, Scotland. Roy and Susan both live on Inchtavannaich Island on Loch Lomond and regularly take their horses to the mainland for exercise by letting them swim across the water. Loch Lomond is the largest freshwater loch in Scotland with about thirty islands.
Photo courtesy Chester Zoo
Porcupette Noko.
Two baby porcupines have had their first ever health check-ups at
Chester Zoo, in Chester U.K. The African Crested Porcupines – named
Stempu and Noko - were born on Sept 1 and Sept 4 to mom Roxie and dad
Keepers gave the duo a physical examination, inserted microchips and took their weights during the routine checks.
Chris Grindle, one of the zoo's keepers said, "We're very pleased to say that both of our spiky new arrivals are in great shape. "Noko tipped the scales at 865g while Stempu was a little heavier at 1075g. "Both look to be very healthy indeed and so we are extremely pleased with them – as are our visitors judging by their reactions when they see them." Porcupine babies, called porcupettes, are born without sharp quills. Instead their spikes are soft and bendy but gradually harden after a few days.
REUTERS/Mihai Vasile/Four Paws/Handout
Ivan, a 4-year-old lion, sits inside a private roadside zoo in Novi Pazar September 23, 2012.
Three lions Ivan, Cornel and Lepa were acquired from the Belgrade Zoo by a private person in 2009, before the Serbian legislation that prohibits possession of dangerous wild animals came into force in 2010. The Serbian CITES management and enforcement authority confiscated the animals and asked Four Paws Animal Welfare Foundation to transfer them to Africa. Four Paws on September 25, 2012 will release the three lions from Serbia and two tigers from Germany in Lionsrock Big Cats Sanctuary in South Africa.
AP Photos/Denis Farrell
Seven-and-a-half month old orphaned elephant calf named Moses was found alone and close to death in the Vwaza Wildlife Reserve in Malawi. He has been adopted by the Jumbo Foundation where he shown being is cared for by his adoptive "mother" and foundation owner, Jenny Webb.
The winners of the internationally acclaimed Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced in October, 2012.
Frozen moment
© Paul Nicklen (Canada)
Winner / Behaviour: Birds
Frozen moment Paul Nicklen of Canada Winner Paul was not the only
mammal lying patiently in wait on the edge of the Ross Sea, Antarctica,
to greet the explosion of emperor penguins. Leopard seals – measuring up
to three and a half metres long – were almost certainly lurking at the
edge of the ice ready to grab a meal. The penguins were therefore
exiting as fast as possible. They can sky-rocket up to two metres high
out of the water, landing well clear of the edge. 'I also kept an eye
out for leopard seals myself,' says Paul. 'I'd previously had one hit me
square in the face when I was five metres from the ice edge, knocking
me down and stunning me. Luckily it realised that I wasn't a penguin and
slipped back into the icy water.' The penguins' survival is vital to
that of their two-month-old chicks, hungrily waiting some 10 kilometres
away at the Cape Washington colony. With full bellies, the penguins
toboggan to the colony, where they regurgitate the food to their
respective single chicks. They then head back to the Ross Sea for
another three-week stint at sea.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Wolf whisperer; Ecologist Dmitry Shamovich plays with a tamed wolf at his house.
A pig dives into the water in Ningxiang county, Hunan province November 11, 2012. Villager Huang Demin drives his pigs to dive into the water from a 3-metre-high platform.
AFP PHOTO / Laurin Schmid
The keeper kisses the yet unnamed male aardvark on December 18, 2012 during a press conference at Berlin Zoo. The keeper bottle feeds the animal.


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Black Bean Chicken with Rice Recipe
This family favorite only requires a few ingredients, so it's easy to fix on a weeknight. —Molly Newman, Portland, Oregon
- 3 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 1 cup salsa
- 2 cups cooked brown rice
- Combine chili powder, cumin, pepper and salt; rub over chicken. In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, brown chicken in oil on both sides. Stir in beans, corn and salsa. Cover and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes or until a thermometer reads 165°.
- Slice chicken; serve with rice and bean mixture. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Black Bean Chicken with Rice in Healthy Cooking
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Reviewed Oct. 28, 2013
Really good. The chicken had a little kick but my kids still liked it. I mixed the rice and bean mixture together and it was delicious. My husband suggested putting it in burritos.
Reviewed Apr. 30, 2013
Easy, quick and tasty!
Reviewed Apr. 2, 2013
Very easy and ingredients that you have on hand. Will make again.
Reviewed Nov. 3, 2012
This recipe had lots of flavor and was very quick and easy to prepare. It's good on pasta, also.
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2012
I added a bit more chili, as my family likes spicey, it was very good. Very flavorful and tasty, and easy to make. I'll be making it again.
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Blue Ivy has been named the "Worst Celebrity Girls" name of 2012, according to BabyNames.com. The site says 47 percent of voters felt that Jay-Z and Beyonce's choice for their daughter was that worst they'd seen last year.
Lion, the name given to the son of actor Alex O'Loughlin and model Malia Jones, was voted the worst celebrity baby boy's name of 2012.
BabyNames.com's founder Jennifer Moss says there were fewer bad names to pick from in 2012. "We're not seeing crazy names like Pilot Inspektor or Moxie Crimefighter anymore. I think celebrities are becoming a little more sensitive to the fact that the child has to live with his or her name."


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Sean Sherk vs. B.J. Penn/Joe Stevenson (for lightweight title)
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Why do they keep fighting Rashad Evans? Ever since his fight with Tito Ortiz, it is not worth watching him fight. It looks like he doesnt want to be in the ring when he fights... Like he doesnt want to hit and doesnt want to get hit, so he just dances around a bit and thats all...
He is boring.
Thiago Silva will KO him.
THat fight could be very brutal on poor rashad. I dont get why he doesnt cut to 185. I mean I believe he wrestled around that weight
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The gap between elite @ 205 and the run of the mill is how big the cut is. Rampage, Hendo, Liddell, and even Wandy are tons bigger than guys like Rashad, Hammil and Bisping.
Hendo? He may have 205-210 against Page, but that's tiny. Wand has a smaller frame, and I'd say 205 is really too big for him in the weightcutting envrionment of American MMA. I don't think Hammil's small at all. He has a solid frame on him.
I agree that Tito is a giant. He made Liddell look a little small in their last fight.
Tito was in Des Moines for our fights at Toad Holler back in 2000 before he became a starlet... super different in person than on TV... But hes got to be one of the widest people I have ever met.
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By Kevin Watkins
OXFORD, England Rich countries are ardent advocates for democracy all around the
world. But when it comes to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank,
government of the many by the few is the preferred option.
Developing countries are systematically denied a voice in decisions that profoundly affect
the lives of their citizens. Nowhere is the democratic deficit more keenly felt than in Africa.
With votes weighted to reflect their financial stakes, rich countries enjoy a built-in majority
on the executive boards of the IMF and World Bank. Membership of the two institutions
now totals 184 countries. The Group of Seven industrial countries account for around 40
percent of the total votes.
At the other extreme, Africa accounts for a quarter of the membership and just over 4
percent of the vote. Belgium (population 10 million) has more votes than Nigeria,
Ethiopia, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa combined (total population
around 300 million). If it came to a vote, Africa might as well stay at home.
Africa's voice is further weakened by an unwieldy - and profoundly unfair - system of
executive management. Responsibility for day-to-day management of IMF programs
resides with 24 executive directors. Each of the five biggest stakeholders - the United
States, Germany, France, Japan and Britain - has a director. Other industrial countries,
like Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark, appoint directors that oversee small multicountry
constituencies. Africa has just two executive directors to represent 44 countries.
The upshot is that underrepresentation is compounded by political overload. The sheer
size, diversity and, in some cases, competing interests of these constituencies make it
difficult to forge a consensus, let alone challenge industrial countries.
Some Northern governments see the whole issue as a diversion from the central
challenge of tackling poverty. Others argue that giving Africa and the developing world a
greater voice would open the door to reckless mismanagement. These views are shortsighted
and potentially dangerous.
In international economic governance, as in national governance, greater democracy can
improve the quality of policy. Consider the perennial issue of African debt. In 1996, when
the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative was adopted, African directors at the IMF
and World Bank warned that it was fatally flawed. Rich countries could ignore their advice
with impunity - and did.
The human costs for Africa have been immense. Heavily indebted countries continue to
transfer over $2 billion a year to creditors, diverting resources needed to generate growth
and invest in health and education. Ethiopia is still spending more on debt than it spends
on health.
This week, debt is once again on the agenda of the annual IMF-World Bank meeting. The
United States and Britain accept that the current initiative falls far short of what is needed,
and that for many countries, a total write-off is required. This is what Africa proposed
eight years ago.
Some very modest reforms could improve the responsiveness and efficiency of the IMF
and the World Bank. The starting point should be an overhaul of the voting structure.
When the IMF and the World Bank were established in 1944, two categories of votes
were created. One was linked to financial stake. The other, the "basic vote," was
allocated as an entitlement of membership to give the organizations a genuinely
international character. Over time, the share of "basic vote" has been eroded to less than
2 percent of the total - one fifth of the level in 1970. Reversing this process would give
Africa and other developing regions a stronger voice.
The executive management system also needs reform. There should be more African
executive directors, each of them representing no more than eight countries.
Would Africa use an enhanced voice responsibly? Democracy is a messy business.
Doubtless mistakes will be made. Then again, mistakes are already being made. And
without democracy and accountability, how can international financial institutions
establish the credibility and legitimacy needed to manage our increasingly interdependent
global economy?
Kevin Watkins is director of the UNDP's Human Development Report Office. Ngaire
Woods is director of the Global Economic Governance Program, Oxford University.
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Because the custom-designed implant did not require readjustments during the procedure, surgery and patient recovery times were slashed.
Last year, a team of experts gathered in Hasselt, Belgium, to develop a unique solution to an 83-year-old woman's bone infection. The collaboration resulted in the replacement of her mandible with a 3-D printed custom implant, said to be the world's first such procedure. The project required the team of physicians and researchers to work closely together during a short timeframe.
The patient had visited Dr Jules Poukens (Orbis Medical Centre, Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands) with a rapidly progressive and serious bone infection. Poukens soon realised that a conventional treatment involving removal of the damaged bone would not suffice because of the severity of the infection.
Another option used for large defects of the mandible is to reconstruct it with a vascularised bone transplant.
"In our case, the condylar heads, which are part of the tempero-mandibular joint, also had to be reconstructed. A combination of the bone transplant with some kind of metallic implant was imperative," says Poukens. "Since this was an older lady and since part of the joint had to be reconstructed, a custom implant that would reconstruct the entire mandible was an obvious choice."
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This case was unusual because the patient needed a complete mandible replacement. Concerned that the infection would spread to neighbouring anatomical structures, Poukens contacted Sirris (Brussels, Belgium), a nonprofit organisation providing expertise to the Belgian technology industry. Poukens asked for help to quickly bring together and coordinate a team of experts that could tackle the challenge before the infection spread.
"Input from medical doctors, research institutes and companies was necessary in order to design and manufacture such a complex implant in such a short timeframe," says Poukens.
Carsten Engel, Head of Medical Affairs at Sirris, was brought in to coordinate the project and to maximise interactions between surgeons and engineers.
Language barriers
"The challenge for engineers is always to understand the language of surgeons, and [vice versa]—they have an overview of the manufacturing process but they lack technological understanding, so bringing both worlds together is always a challenge at first," says Engel.
While additive manufacturing has been used before to reconstruct parts of the skull or the mandible, the use of a custom implant to reconstruct the complete mandible represented a new approach. "This is a new kind of implant since the entire mandible is replaced by the implant, and the mandible is in motion more or less 24 hours per day," says Poukens.
The treatment approach was developed at University of Hasselt (Hasselt, Belgium) in cooperation with Orbis Medical Centre and engineers from Xios University College (Diepenbeek, Belgium), Sirris, Xilloc Medical bv (Maastricht, Netherlands), and the Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Manufacturing by additive technology was performed by LayerWise (Leuven, Belgium), which produced the titanium implant using additive laser melting and prepared the implant's dental components. Cambio-ceramics (Leiden, Netherlands) coated the implant with hydroxyapatite, a bio-active bone substitute.
"Every aspect of the implant has a function," says Engel. "We had to consider the aspects of the ligaments that had to be fixed to the implant, the specific nerves that had to go through the implant and of course other critical aspects. The timeframe was a challenge, as well, since we had to operate very fast."
The patient went into surgery in June 2011. Surgeons replaced the inflamed mandible with the custom implant. Since the implant was designed to fit the patient's anatomy, it did not need readjustments during surgery, which shortened the surgery time. A typical reconstructive procedure takes between 10 and 20 hours and requires the patient to stay two to four weeks in the hospital to recover. This procedure took four hours and the patient was able to go home after four days.
Shortened surgery time reduces the likelihood of complications during and after the procedure. It also cuts hospital costs such as surgeon reimbursement, operating room occupation, anaesthesiology and postsurgery recovery. Because of these benefits, the demand for custom implants is increasing, says Engels.
Additive manufacturing and 3-D printing accelerate the production of custom implants compared with other technologies. In addition, the implants can be produced using the same equipment as standard implants.
Engel is confident that 3-D printing will revolutionise medical device design.
"Today we show the metal applications, but we are already working on more advanced technologies and materials, such as biodegradable ceramics and polymers, and we will combine those with stem cells as well," Engel says. "The day will come when we will only use stem cells on biopolymers for organ printing. Printing arteries, skin and even an entire heart or kidney will be possible."
However, the market for custom implants is not yet seeing tremendous growth, as these are new technologies lacking widespread adoption.
"Few medical centres in Europe have extensive knowledge of and expertise in [the use of] these implants in cranio-maxillofacial surgery," says Poukens. "Knowledge about these kinds of implants has to be disseminated throughout the medical community."
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About Benson
- Married to Emily Coffey.
- Professional Network Architect and Internet Engineer.
- Lives in St. Louis, MO, US but travels frequently.
- Self-professed Philosopher and Devil's Advocate.
- Casual Audiophile, amateur Photographer, occasional Metalsmith.
- Obviously over-fond of Wikipedia.
Benson Schliesser is an Internet and network technology subject matter expert. He has over 15 years of professional experience, much of that spent designing, deploying, and operating infrastructure for network and datacenter service providers.
Currently, Benson is a Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he is part of the Service Provider Technology Architecture team. His work is focused on Internet technologies overall, specifically SDN architectures and datacenter networking, as well as next-generation service provider networks, IPv6 transition, and future network architectures. Benson is also interested in the development of IPv4 address markets, Internet governance, and inter-domain routing in the global Internet. He co-chairs the IETF NVO3 and ARMD working groups, is a member of the IETF Operations Directorate, and contributes to various other IETF working groups. Benson is a member of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Standards Association, and is a voting member of the IEEE ICWG / P2302 working group. He also participates in policy discussion in ARIN. And he is a member of NANOG and the Internet Society.
Prior to Cisco, Benson was Technical Vice President in the Office of the CTO at Savvis, Inc. where he was responsible for network architecture and technology, providing strategy planning, product portfolio leadership, new technology evaluation, and M&A support. Before joining Savvis, he held positions in software development, network engineering, and systems administration. His career began during high school in the mid-'90s when he co- founded an Internet Service Provider to serve his local community. Benson went on to provide systems administration for several university labs while attending the University of Missouri – St. Louis, and then network engineering and software development for a regional Internet Services Provider.
Employment History
- Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc. 2010-Present
- Technical Vice President, Savvis, Inc. 2006-2010
- Senior Network Technologist, Savvis, Inc. 2004-2006
- Director of R&D, Savvis, Inc. 2001-2004
- Senior Network Engineer, Savvis, Inc. 1999-2001
- Senior Systems Engineer, Savvis, Inc. 1999
- Systems Programmer, InLink Comm. 1998-1999
- Web Programmer, InLink Comm. 1998
- Senior Support Engineer, InLink Comm. 1998
- Systems Administrator, UMSL 1997-1998
- Network Systems Engineer, BPC Internet 1995-1997
Notable Projects
Highlight projects from Benson's career include:
- the architecture, development, and design of Savvis' next-generation cloud network
- the architecture and design of Savvis' global QoS-enabled MPLS network (NGN)
- the architecture and design of Savvis' Hosting Area Network (HAN) datacenter network
- the design and implementation of Savvis' Intelligent IP Layer-3 VPN network
- the development and implementation of InLink Communications' back-office Operations, Support, & Billing system
- the complete implementation of BPC Internet's dial-up Internet access platform and supporting services
Publications & Works in Progress
- S. Barber, O. Delong, C. Grundemann, V. Kuarsingh, & B. Schliesser, "ARIN Draft Policy 2011-5: Shared Transition Space", Work In Progress, IETF Internet-Draft draft-bdgks-arin-shared-transition-space-03, September 2011.
- B. Schliesser & T. Nadeau, "Definition of Textual Conventions for Virtual Private Network (VPN) Management", IETF RFC 4265, November 2005.
Public Presentations & Panels
- B. Schliesser (moderator), "Track: ARMD", NANOG 52 Conference, June 2011.
- B. Lozano, B. Schliesser & S. Mandava, "Enterprise Use-Case Roundtable", CloudCamp St. Louis Conference, December 2009.
- M. Morrow, B. Schliesser, et al., "Panel: Emerging Technologies and Business Architectural Impact", MPLS 2009 Conference, October 2009.
Old & Expired Drafts
- B. Schliesser & L. Dunbar, "ARMD Call for Investigation", IETF Internet-Draft (expired) draft-ietf-armd-call-for-investigation-00, May 2011.
- L. Dunbar, S. Hares, M. Sridharan, N. Venkataramaiah & B. Schliesser, "Address Resolution for Large Data Center Problem Statement", IETF Internet-Draft (expired) draft-dunbar-armd-problem-statement-01, March 2011.
- S. Hares, P. Muley, K. Patel, L. Fang, B. Schliesser & N. Bitar, "Co-operative Route Filtering capability for BGP-4", IETF Internet-Draft (expired) draft-muley-idr-orf-order-02, October 2005.
- J. Laria, E. Stelzer, S. Hancock & B. Schliesser, "Virtual Router Management Information Base Using SMIv2", IETF Internet-Draft (expired) draft-ietf-l3vpn-vr-mib-04, July 2005.
- A. Nagarajan, J. Sumimoto, M. Suzuki, P. Knight & B. Schliesser, "Applicability Statement for Virtual Router-based Layer 3 PPVPN Approaches", IETF Internet-Draft (expired) draft-ietf-l3vpn-as-vr-01, February 2004.
Memberships and Other Experience
- Co-chair, IETF NVO3 Working Gropu – 2012-Present
- Participant, Open Networking Foundation – 2011-Present
- Co-chair, IETF ARMD Working Group – 2011-Present
- Member, IETF Operations Directorate – 2011-Present
- Voting Member, IEEE P2302 Working Group – 2011-Present
- Organizer, St. Louis Cloud Computing Users Group – 2009-2010
- Organizer, CloudCamp St. Louis – 2009
- Member, BIND Forum – 2009-Present
- Participant, LISP Beta Network research project – 2008-2010
- Field Assistant, Galapagos Islands, Oxford University Centre for the Environment – 2007
- Policy Development Participant, ARIN – 2006-Present
- Member, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) – 2005-Present
- Participant, NANOG – 2000-Present
- Participant, IETF, multiple working groups – 2000-Present
- Member, Internet Society (ISOC) – 1999-Present
- Member & Volunteer, St. Louis Unix Users Group – 1998-1999
- Student Member, Waterloo, IL School District, Technology Planning Committee – 1994-1996


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A Florence organization is working to keep children from drinking alcohol through a new campaign announced Tuesday.
The Florence County Coalition and Circle Park Behavioral Health Services held a luncheon to discuss the new campaign, that will aim to educate parents on the dangers.
"Many devastating things can happen to young people when they consume alcohol not just the drinking and driving factor. You know there is sexual assaults, violent date rape, property crimes, burns drownings," said Dawn Hancock.
The campaign includes commercials, intensive law enforcement training and education and awareness presentations in the community.


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