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The Chronicle of Higher Education is running a symposium on the benefits of academic blogging. This symposium addresses ostensibly the failure of Juan Cole, a prominent Middle East scholar and proprietor of the blog Informed Comment, to recieve tenure at Yale University. Many have attributed that failure to his publishing his views on the Internet, though Yale has thus far refused to comment.
Many of the contributors to the symposium also talk in depth about the benefits of academic blogging. Here are some choice morsels:
Brad De Long:
The hope of all of us who blog is that we will become smarter, do more useful work, be happier and more productive, and will also impress our deans so they will raise our salaries. The first three hopes are clearly true: Academics who blog think more profound thoughts, have a bigger influence on the world — both the academic and the broader worlds — and are happier for it. Are we more productive in an academic sense? Maybe. We will see when things settle down.
Are our deans impressed? Not so far, but they should be. A lot of a university's long-run success depends on attracting good undergraduates. Undergraduates and their parents are profoundly influenced by the public face of the university. And these days, a thoughtful, intelligent, well-informed Web logger like Juan Cole or Dan Drezner is an important part of a university's public face. Michigan gains in reputation and mindshare from having a Cole on its faculty. Yale loses from not having an equivalent.
A great university has faculty members who do a great many things — teaching undergraduates, teaching graduate students, the many things that are "research," public education, public service, and the turbocharging of the public sphere of information and debate that is a principal reason that governments finance and donors give to universities. Web logs may well be becoming an important part of that last university mission.
Does Internet fame necessarily spell academic doom? Given that hiring and tenure decisions in higher education are usually made by committees, and that strong public opinions voiced on any subject will probably offend at least one member of a committee, the results are likely to be a negative. Though the academy gives lip service to academic freedom, it's quite clear that a candidate's expressed views, and politics generally, are often important factors in hiring or tenure decisions.
Is that a bad thing? It depends. Jacques Pluss was fired from Fairleigh Dickinson University after it became known that he was a member of the National Socialist Movement. (He claimed his neo-Nazi affiliation was for research.) Not many people seem to have been upset by his case. One doubts that an admitted member of the Ku Klux Klan would do well, either. On the other hand, far less controversial beliefs, including opposition to affirmative action or the belief that senior faculty members should teach heavier loads than colleagues who produce more scholarship, might well stand in the way of hiring or tenure at many institutions. Expressing such ideas on a blog merely ensures that they are Google-searchable if anyone bothers to check.
My own feeling is that blogging is like most hobbies — something that should be peripheral to hiring and tenure decisions. (Has anyone been denied tenure because of a preference for wet over dry flies? Probably somewhere, sometime, but it's not common.) When blogs focus on topics at the core of scholars' expertise, of course, they're likely to play a bigger role in evaluating academic fitness, fairly or unfairly. Obviously, fraud or plagiarism on a blog is still fraud or plagiarism. But smaller matters probably shouldn't play much of a role. When blogged comments produce prejudice or bias on the part of hirers, well, I don't like that,but so long as hiring decisions are subjective, that sort of thing is unavoidable. We can hope, however, that faculty members will be aware of their own prejudices and open-minded enough to rise above them. Sometimes those hopes will be fulfilled.
If you veer away from purely scholarly writing and engage in polemic or satire or elliptical snark about controversial subject matter, you may very well win a widespread audience and feel highly gratified by this response, but then you will also be motivating some people to oppose you, perhaps quite viciously, and you will be generating the material they can use to try to bring you down. The very fact that you're a professor is leverage: This person purports to be a scholar, but look how he writes!
Successful blog writing is sharp and clear. Controversial opinions will look quite stark. You lay it on the line, and you mean to startle readers and make your opponents mad. Academic writing is temperate and swathed in verbiage. It creates a comfortable environment for academics and wards off casual readers. In the blogosphere, you're newly exposed, and it's a rough arena, where you have far less control over what happens to you. That's part of what makes blogging empowering and, often, great fun. But it's a big risk, and of course, it risks your career.
Blogs and prestigious university appointments do not mix terribly well. That is because top departments are profoundly risk-averse when it comes to senior hires. In some ways, that caution is sensible — hiring a senior professor is the equivalent of signing a baseball player to a lifetime contract without any ability to release or trade him. In such a situation, even small doubts about an individual become magnified.
The trouble with blogs is that they seem designed to provoke easy doubts. Blogs are an outlet for unexpurgated, unreviewed, and occasionally unprofessional musings. What makes them worth reading can also make them prone to error. Any honest scholar-blogger — myself included — could acknowledge a post or two that they would like to have back. At a place like Yale, one bad blog post can erase a lot of good will very quickly.
There are other risks. At Chicago, I found that some of my colleagues overestimated the time and effort I put into my blog — which led them to overestimate lost opportunities for scholarship. Other colleagues maintained that they never read blogs — and yet, without fail, they come into my office once every two weeks to talk about a post of mine. Today's senior faculty members look at blogs the way a previous generation of academics looked at television — as a guilty, tawdry pleasure that should not be talked about in respectable circles.
In some ways, this problem is merely the latest manifestation of what happens when professors try to become public intellectuals. Most members of the academy unconsciously accept the maxim that "foolish names and foolish faces often appear in familiar places." Blogging multiplies the problem a thousandfold, creating new pathways to public recognition beyond the control of traditional academic gatekeepers or even op-ed editors. Any usurpation of scholarly authority is bound to upset those who benefit the most from the status quo.
I must admit that it was a big decision for me to decide to blog under my own name. It was a bigger decision to inform my boss and the chair of the graduate school about it. Understanding that I may be making a fatal career decision, I still decided to do those things for two reasons:
- I sincerely believe that it is important for all scientists to reach out to the public to demystify what we do. I view blogging as an extension of what I do at cocktail parties and family gatherings: explain science and medicine to people who have questions. In that context, I hope my colleagues and superiors will view what I do here as both very important and inherently casual.
- I try to maintain the same standards of academic and personal integrity that here that I maintain in every other publication. Just because something is on the Internet doesn't mean it has vanished into the ether. When you put your name on something, it matters because as experts our names have power and prestige. Therefore, I don't think it is a good idea to shoot your mouth off about what you don't understand or to indulge in personal attacks. To do so would be abuse of your position in a scholarly article, and the Internet is no different. I hope that in keeping to a similar standard on this blog, my colleagues and superiors will recognize that I bring the same level of integrity into other areas.
That being said, politics is trouble for academics. I feel like Juan Cole should have known that he was playing with fire. If you are going to bring the public spotlight on yourself as a public intellectual, you should realize that spotlight has negative effects. This is why I try and avoid talking about very political or partisan issues. 1) Doing so always has consequences. 2) It is a distraction from the other good things that I would like to write avoid that are significantly less risky.
All in all, I think that blogging will eventually become an accepted part of academia — and even a positive one. People will be judged by what they write, but by a similar standard to their other scholarly writings — intellectual honesty, relevance, etc. Eventually this sort of arbitrary distrust will recede into a kind of acceptance.
Hat-tip: Daniel Drezner.


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Its strange, I found out that the ign1 fuse on my 94 sedan deville was blown so i replaced it. I went to get some gas and my ac didnt work, so I checked it again and the same fuse blew again. The fuse will only blow after I start driving, its very odd and strange. When the fuse blows the controls for the twilight sentinel/trunk switch/fuel door switch doesnt work and for some reason causes the fuel level gauge not to work. I brought it to cadillac and they couldnt find anything wrong with it and they were blaming my stereo because it wasnt stock. Anybody have some idea on what could be the problem?
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Only 5 out of 12 function keys combinations work. The volume manager doesn't work and the disable/enable touch pad which I used A LOT doesn't work and it's killing me.
Does anybody found a solution to this??
Only 5 out of 12 function keys combinations work. The volume manager doesn't work and the disable/enable touch pad which I used A LOT doesn't work and it's killing me.
Does anybody found a solution to this??
ASUS has finally released the ATK Drivers for Windows 8. All the function keys, including volume up/down, brightness control and wireless switch work perfectly on Windows 8 after installing it. You can download the driver for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8 from here: ATK Package
I just downloaded Windows 8.1 and now I have this problem. The Asus tech I spoke to on the phone basically said sorry, they dont have an update for that yet. Ridiculous.
Some people get all their function keys working even without installing any separate drivers for that, some don't. It varies with models.
First option is to download and install ATK drivers for you model from the Asus Website : http://www.service.asus.com/#!Downloads/
They have released Windows 8 drivers, software compatibility fixes etc. So select OS accordingly.
If possible, update all the drivers available there.
Below two posts might help you regarding this :
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I am using K53SM, and had this exact similar problem. Installing the latest drivers, and updating the bios did the trick.
Been searching around and figured I'd help with this problem a bit. I'm running a G73 and had the same concerns, but with some digging I seem to be fixing this slight nuisance a few keys at a time. So far so good. I've restored my WiFi on/off, Volume mute/up/down, Touchpad on/off, and Keyboard light up/down. In the process of getting the rest.
Asus now has an option in their downloads section for "Drivers for Win8" and "Apps for Win8". When you go to select model just click Notebook and scroll through the options in the series panel till you find the quoted selections. Make sure you select the right drivers for the brand of hardware you got. I'll post again if there's a problem with any of the drivers. Also some of the drivers for the G75 are compatible as well.
Here's a link to the downloads page from Asus.
Edit: The ATI 5870 Graphics driver from ASUS didn't fix my brightness fn keys. Had to go to ATI's site. Driver from there works perfect. Use the branded Drivers from the graphics manufacturers website if you have something else.
ASUS doesn't have a version of their utilities driver software available for Windows 8 yet (according to their website).


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The more massive the bulge of a galaxy, the redder the galaxy, says a team of astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (arXiv.org).
The Universe we can see is made up of billions of galaxies, each containing anywhere from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of billions of stars.
Large numbers of galaxies are elliptical in shape, red and mostly made up of old stars. Another type is the spiral, where arms wind out in a blue thin disk from a central red bulge.
On average stars in spiral galaxies tend to be much younger than those in ellipticals.
Dr Asa Frederick Bluck from the University of Victoria in Canada and his colleagues used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to group together over half a million galaxies of all different colors, shapes, and masses.
They then used pattern recognition software to measure the shape of each one, to see how the proportion of red stars in a galaxy varies with its other properties.
They found that the mass in the central bulge is the key to knowing the color of the whole galaxy.
Above a given bulge mass, galaxies are red and have no new young stars.
Almost all galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers. The mass of the bulge is closely related to the mass of the black hole; the more massive the black hole the more energy is released into the surrounding galaxy in the form of powerful jets and X-ray emission. This can blow away and heat up gas, stopping new stars from forming.
"A relatively simple result, that large galaxy bulges mean red galaxies, has profound consequences. Big bulges mean big black holes and these can put an end to star formation," Dr Bluck said.
Asa F. L. Bluck et al. 2014. Bulge mass is king: The dominant role of the bulge in determining the fraction of passive galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. MNRAS, accepted for publication; arXiv: 1403.5269


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CT of the Pregnant Patient
"According to the phantom data, patients are subject todifferent organ doses in the lens and brain depending on scanner assignment. At our institution with existing protocols, absorbed dose at brain CT are lowest with the single detector CT scanner, followed by MDCT scanners capable of gantry tilt"
Radiation Dose for Routine Clinical Adult Brain CT: Variability on Different Scanners at One Institution Jaffe TA et al. AJR 2010; 195:433-438
"In cases where CT is needed, protocols should be optimized for the individual with careful planning, with use of dose reduction techniques that allow adequate imaging without unnecessary radiation exposure. As in all cases, the benefit of an imaging diagnosis needs to be weighed against theoretical risks."
2008 ACR Practice Guidelines
"To maintain a high standard of safety, particularly when imaging potentially pregnant patients, imaging radiation must be applied at levels as low as reasonably achieveable (ALARA), while the degree of medical benefit must counterbalance the well managed levels of risk."
"As shown in table 1, the ACR suggested that the theoretical risks are not likely at doses less than 100 mGy."
Imaging in Pregnant Patients: Examination Appropriateness Wieseler KM et al. RadioGraphics 2010; 30:1215-1233
Type of CT exam
Dos mGy
Section thickness (mm)
Noise index
CT of the Chest
CT for PE
CT of the Abdomen
CT of the Kidney and bladder
CT of the Pelvis
CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
CT Angiography
Gestational age (weeks)
<50 mDy
>100 mGy
Possible malformations
Possible defects in IQ or mental retardation
IQ deficits not detectable at diagnostic doses
None applicable to diagnostic radiology
"However, no examination should be withheld when an important clinical diagnosis is under consideration. Exposure to ionizing radiation may be unavoidable, but there is no evidence to suggest that the risk to the fetus after a single imaging study and an interventional procedure is significant."
"The risk burden of radiation exposure to the fetus has to be carefully weighed against the benefits of obtaining a critical diagnosis quickly and using a single tailored imaging exam ."
Imaging in Pregnant Patients: Examination Appropriateness Wieseler KM et al. RadioGraphics 2010; 30:1215-1233
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Ray JG, Schull MJ, Urquia ML, You JJ, Guttmann A, Vermeulen MJ.
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BACKGROUND: The association between fetal exposure to major radiodiagnostic testing in pregnancy-computed tomography (CT) and radionuclide imaging-and the risk of childhood cancer is not established.
METHODS AND FINDINGS: We completed a population-based study of 1.8 million maternal-child pairs in the province of Ontario, from 1991 to 2008. We used Ontario's universal health care-linked administrative databases to identify all term obstetrical deliveries and newborn records, inpatient and outpatient major radiodiagnostic services, as well as all children with a malignancy after birth. There were 5,590 mothers exposed to major radiodiagnostic testing in pregnancy (3.0 per 1,000) and 1,829,927 mothers not exposed. The rate of radiodiagnostic testing increased from 1.1 to 6.3 per 1,000 pregnancies over the study period; about 73% of tests were CT scans. After a median duration of follow-up of 8.9 years, four childhood cancers arose in the exposed group (1.13 per 10,000 person-years) and 2,539 cancers in the unexposed group (1.56 per 10,000 person-years), a crude hazard ratio of 0.69 (95% confidence interval 0.26-1.82). After adjusting for maternal age, income quintile, urban status, and maternal cancer, as well as infant sex, chromosomal or congenital anomalies, and major radiodiagnostic test exposure after birth, the risk was essentially unchanged (hazard ratio 0.68, 95% confidence interval 0.25-1.80).
CONCLUSIONS: Although major radiodiagnostic testing is now performed in about 1 in 160 pregnancies in Ontario, the absolute annual risk of childhood malignancy following exposure in utero remains about 1 in 10,000. Since the upper confidence limit of the relative risk of malignancy may be as high as 1.8 times that of an unexposed pregnancy, we cannot exclude the possibility that fetal exposure to CT or radionuclide imaging is carcinogenic.


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Chapter 2: England?s First ?Foreign Plantations?: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1732 Interaction between Europe, Africa, & Western Hemisphere accelerated Compare & contrast colonies established by Spanish, French, Dutch, & English Quest for profit & competition still central Compare & contrast English colonies in Chesapeake & New England Native American life dramatically affected I. New Spain, New France, & New Netherland First permanent colonies in what will become U.S.A. founded by Spain French Protestants tried (1560s) but failed St. Augustine founded (1565) to protect Spanish treasure fleets Spanish conquered Pueblos to found New Mexico (1598) II. New Spain In New Mexico, Spanish hoped to repeat earlier success (Central America) New Mexico was not a source of wealth In St. Augustine & Santa Fe, Spanish conquered Indians, and Franciscans attempted conversion Spanish had some success but also faced significant resistance; Spanish were few in number III. New France French turned north after expulsion from Florida by Spanish Founded Quebec (1608) & Montreal (1642) Controlled St. Lawrence River & access to interior Focused on fur trade Like Spanish, mostly men migrated and are few in number, but French less dispersed Jesuits attempted conversion Unlike Franciscans in New Spain, Jesuits accommodated Native American culture Native Americans interested in writing Slowly gained thousands of converts; these converts changed over time, becoming more hierarchical in gender IV. New Netherland Like French, Dutch focused on fur trade and sent only a few men to settlements Founded Albany (1614) on Hudson River & New Amsterdam (1624) on Manhattan Island New Netherland = small part of extensive Dutch global trade system Dutch & French formed alliances with Native Americans?increased warfare, and Iroquois (Dutch ally) defeated Hurons (French ally) V. 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The English Reformation Second Factor: Religion Henry VIII broke from Roman Catholic Church & founded Church of England (1533) England then influenced by Protestant Reformation from continent Luther & Calvin rejected elaborate rituals & church hierarchy; stressed reading Bible & salvation by faith alone Anabaptist (radical reformation) went a step further and separated church & state and would only baptize adult believers (pacifists and would not hold public office) Luther and Calvin (see page 10) Late 1500s, Puritans form Purify Church of England of Catholic aspects & incorporate Protestant ideas Puritans confined church membership to ?saved? & asserted predestination (Calvin) Under James I & Charles I, increased persecution of Puritans (early 1600s) IX. The Founding of Virginia Unlike Spanish & French, English financed colonization via joint-stock companies Advantage: pooled resources of many & less risk Disadvantage: colonies needed massive capital but created little immediate profit Virginia Co. (1606) found Jamestown (1607) Immediate trouble?drought, disease, & death John Smith credited with turning Jamestown around Men sent not prepared/willing to farm? expected quick profit (Spanish model) 1607?1624: 8,000 migrated; 1,300 survived Powhatan?s help vital to colony?s survival Powhatan traded food for English knives & guns (to consolidate his confederacy) English/Indian relations quickly deteriorated Although similarities existed, each group focused on differences (role of men in agriculture, importance of hunting) Both had political hierarchies but English more autocratic, whereas Algonquians relied on consensus (chiefs less powerful) Key differences in concepts of property Algonquians assumed property held by group English stressed individual ownership and rejected Indian claims Reflected general English refusal to respect Native American traditions Tobacco brought key changes Saved colony w/ profitable export product & shifted Virginia to agrarian settlement Intensified need for land & labor As incentives to migrate, Co. offered Headright system (1617) & House of Burgesses (1619) Encroachment increased tension w/ Native Americans ? attacked English (1622) English defeated & slowly subordinated Powhatan Confederacy Virginia survived, but Co. collapse (1624) Became royal colony; unlike other European colonies, more local self-government in English colonies X. 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Co. jurisdiction; sought Pilgrim control in self-government Like Virginia, difficult initial settlement & depended on local Native Americans Pokanokets ally w/ Pilgrims for help against Narragansetts Pilgrims = small group; Congregationalist Massachusetts Bay Co. (1629) much larger Founded Massachusetts (1630) & brought Co. charter; again, local self-government Winthrop assumed Mass. would be hierarchical, but asserted communal religious goal Strived for public good, not private advance Covenant: contract with God & with each other Affected government (Mayflower Compact; Connecticut?s Orders) Bay Co. transformed into government Created legislature As with Virginia, one must be male & own property to vote for legislature, In Massachusetts, must also be church member New England distributed land differently Alloted land to groups of men to form town Towns hierarchical, but all men received land New England settlement more compact than Chesapeake, & three town types develop: Isolated agrarian towns; coastal towns (Boston), & commercialized agrarian towns Increase in settlers lead to Connecticut, New Haven, & New Hampshire (1636?38) As in Virginia, expansion increased tension with Native Americans (Pequots), & Puritans did not respect Indian land claims Tension resulted in war (1637)?English slaughtered most Pequots who were unable to form alliances with other Native Americans Till 1670s, not much warfare, but Native Americans resisted English influence A few Puritans tried to convert Native Americans Eliot insisted that converts adopt English culture Result = few converts New France Jesuits more successful b/c did not take much land & accommodated Indian traditions Why convert: disoriented by disruptions to native life (disease, loss of land) XII. Life in New England Unlike Indians & Chesapeake English, Puritans tended to remain on initial farms Formed stable towns & families No gender imbalance b/c many families, including women, migrate Greater natural increase; less disease than Chesapeake; parents exerted more control Church/State linked; no freedom of religion All must attend church & pay taxes to support church, but voting was limited to members Enforced morality & expelled dissenters R. Williams founded Rhode Island (1636), and like Maryland, allowed religious freedom Hutchinson (1630s) ? challenged Puritan orthodoxy & male superiority Summary: Discuss Links to the World & Legacy European colonists & Native Americans interacted and affected each other How did wampum reflect this interaction/ effect? Why was Foxwood's Casino (1990s) important? Reflect survival of Pequots after near destruction Casinos fund museum; other tribes begin to reassert heritage & history
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Nikki Grahame
Current Status: Runner-up
Day 1: Enters house
Day 2: Wins £650 in 'Who Is She?' task
Day 2: Breaks down in tears over return to house
Day 4: Opens up about her eating disorder
Day 4: Set task to interview housemates
Day 4: Cries over her writing task
Day 4: Says that she and Coolio don't gel
Day 4: Cries after Coolio's joking
Day 5: Admits that she is missing her phone
Day 6: Concerned at how withdrawn Ulrika is being
Day 6: Becomes paranoid that she has upset Chantelle
Day 7: Faces eviction
Day 9: Thinks that Ulrika has turned on her
Day 10: Breaks down over housemates' snoring
Day 10: Criticised by house for her snoring outburst
Day 10: Reassured by Ulrika over their relationship
Day 11: Makes up four-way race to win series
Day 11: Becomes PA for BB7 Pete as part of task
Day 11: Pushed to breaking point over PA task
Day 11: Attempts to uncover truth of Victor and Nick's 'BBLBC'
Day 11: Saved from eviction
Day 12: Reveals that BB has given her happiest memories
Day 12: Admits she wants to sleep in Vanessa's single bed
Day 13: Criticises BBLB presenter George Lamb
Day 13: Says that she wants Vanessa as her ghost writer
Day 13: Said by Brian that she deserves to be in final
Day 14: Tells Vanessa about her battle with anorexia
Day 15: Has odds on win shortened by bookies
Day 15: Reveals she feels ugly compared to other housemates
Day 15: Admits that she never liked BB7 Aisleyne
Day 16: Upset over gaining some weight
Day 17: Reads eulogy during Big Brother funeral
Day 18: Has final ever Big Brother tantrum
Day 18: Finishes runner-up
Series: Big Brother 7
What shes remembered for: Queen of the tantrum, Nikkis Diary Room histrionics remain unsurpassed by any Big Brother contestant since. Her famous rants and raves about being too cold, her need for bottled water and most memorably the arrival of Susie who won the golden ticket with her shout of "Who is she? Where did you find her?" burnt Nikki into the nations brains.
She also formed an unlikely but endearing relationship with eventual winner of BB7, Tourette's sufferer Pete. They dated for a month after the show ended. She was evicted from the house on Day 58 with 37.2% of the vote but is one of only a handful of housemates to ever re-enter the Big Brother house. She was voted back into the House Next Door with three other ex-housemates. She was then chosen to return to the main house by the surviving contestants and was reinstated as an eligible housemate. She subsequently finished in fifth place, with 6.5% of the final vote.
Her life post-Big Brother: Due to her temper tantrums, Nikki was given her own reality show after leaving the house, titled Princess Nikki, which saw her attempting several jobs to see whether she would keep her job for the day or be sacked due to her infamous tantrums. She has also since appeared on Celebrity Scissorhands, 8 Out Of 10 Cats and The Weakest Link. She was also the 12th most 'written about' person of 2006 in the UK, according to a Channel 4 poll.
Nikki came back to Big Brother as a reporter for Big Brothers Little Brother 8, as part of The B Team and additionally appeared in Big Brother 10 (2009) as part of the tenth anniversary celebrations, competing a 'Silent Disco' task against Karly. She has written a column for OK Hot Stars magazine since 2007 and will be writing her News of the World column from inside the house. She has written a book about her lifelong struggle with anorexia to help other sufferers, and now regularly DJs in clubs and bars around the UK.


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Model home by Gulfshore Homes under way in Murano on The Peninsula at Miromar Lakes
Gulfshore Homes has started construction of a model estate home in the Murano neighborhood on the Peninsula at Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The two-level model home will include a master suite, two guest bedrooms, four full baths, a powder bath, and a cabana bath all under 4,210 square feet of air-conditioned space. The master suite has a sitting area, walk-in his-and-her wardrobes with custom-designed closet interiors, and a door that leads to the outdoor living area. The master bath will have a whirlpool tub, a clear glass shower enclosure tiled to the ceiling, full-height mirrors over 36-inch granite-topped his-and-her vanities, and a makeup counter.
Kitchen features include a breakfast nook, Viking stainless steel refrigerator, double oven, dishwasher and six-burner gas cook top, vegetable refrigerator and maple cabinetry. The kitchen also includes a center island and raised breakfast bar with granite counter tops.
Other features in this estate home include a library with built-ins and two sets of double French doors, a great room with pocket sliders that completely open the room to the outdoor living area, a formal dining room, and a morning kitchen with a sink and under-counter wine refrigerator.
Crown molding throughout the interior perimeter will complement seven-inch baseboards and solid-core, eight-foot interior doors with lever handles available in choice of brushed nickel, oil-rubbed bronze or pewter.
The outdoor living area will include a seating area with skylights, a gas barbecue, bar sink and under-counter refrigerator, as well as electrically operated roll-down screens and unobstructed lake views. Other features include impact-resistant windows and doors, noise suppression between floors and walls, and a concrete paver driveway.
The entire upstairs of the model will be a game room with bar, ice machine, wine refrigerator, dishwasher, oversized bar sink, Sub-Zero refrigerator and a seating area. Homebuyers have the option of replacing the game room with a bedroom, media room or other bonus room area.
The model home's interior design will take on a casual California coastal theme with many natural elements, wood floors and an air of elegant sophistication. Glenn Midnet, IDS, professional and president of Design West in Naples, is the interior designer. Color palettes throughout the home will include beige, cream, taupe and off-white, with accents of other colors. G
The Murano neighborhood at Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club is surrounded on three sides by water providing privacy for its 19 homesites, each with the option of a private boat dock for quick access to Miromar's 700 acres of aquamarine freshwater lakes.
Miromar Lakes is a gated community of luxury residences and the only community in Southwest Florida to offer waterfront living, beaches and golf. Amenities at the 1,800-acre, private resort-style community include three miles of private beaches and a championship golf course. Plus, the 39,000-square-foot, three-building, Beach Clubhouse — a waterfront complex with restaurants, a lounge, library, billiards, a theater, boat docks, a European spa and fitness center, and more.
Gulfshore Homes is a development and homebuilding company that has been building custom estate homes, villas and condominiums in South Florida for more than 20 years, specializing in luxury, tailor-made designs and entertainment features that make each home uniquely distinct. The company's Gulfshore Homes Improvement Solutions program provides improvements, changes and updates for aging luxury homes. The company is at 8891 Brighton Lane, Suite 101, in Bonita Springs. Online at gulfshorehomes.com.
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For a fifth year in a row Warner Bros. is implementing their popular key program. For those that are planning on heading out to San Diego Comic-Con this July, you'll be pleased to know that Warner Bros. is once again giving fans a chance to take home a collectible piece of history.
Warner Bros. has released an exclusive set of limited edition collectible hotel keycards that will come in handy if you have plans on staying at some of the top hotels in the San Diego area. The designs for these hotel keycards are for three upcoming fall series', Arrow, 666 Park Avenue, and Revolution. There will be over 40,000 branded room keys at 38 participating San Diego hotels. Check out the pictures and synopsis's' for each show below.
Arrow: From executive producers Greg Berlanti (Green Lantern), Marc Guggenheim (Green Lantern), Andrew Kreisberg (Fringe) and David Nutter (Smallville), hard-hitting action series Arrow reinvents the DC hero. After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and a very lethal new set of skills that he uses in a war on crime. The series stars Stephen Amell (Private Practice), Colin Donnell (Pan Am), Katie Cassidy (Supernatural), David Ramsey (Dexter), Willa Holland (The O.C.) with Susanna Thompson (Dragonfly) and Paul Blackthorne (The River). From Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, Arrow will air Wednesdays at 8/7c on The CW this fall. Watch the full-length pilot at Warner Bros. Television's Preview Night screening at Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 11, or during the Arrow session on Friday, July 13.
Revolution: What would you do without it all? In Revolution, an epic adventure thriller from Supernatural's Eric Kripke, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and Iron Man's Jon Favreau, a family struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic landscape of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters where every single piece of technology — phones, computers, cars, even lights — has mysteriously blacked out … forever. Revolution stars Billy Burke (Twilight films), Tracy Spiridakos (Being Human), Anna Lise Phillips (Animal Kingdom), Zak Orth (Wet Hot American Summer), Graham Rogers (Memphis Beat), J.D. Pardo (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), David Lyons (The Cape), Maria Howell (The Vampire Diaries) and Tim Guinee (Iron Man films) and is executive produced by Kripke, J.J. Abrams (Fringe) and Bryan Burk (Fringe). Favreau directed the pilot and will serve as co-executive producer of the series, with Kathy Lingg (Fringe) and producer Athena Wickham (Fringe). From Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Bad Robot Productions, Kripke Enterprises and Warner Bros. Television, Revolution will air Mondays at 10/9c on NBC this fall. Watch the full-length pilot at Warner Bros. Television's Preview Night screening at Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 11, or during the Revolution session on Saturday, July 14.
666 Park Avenue: Anything you desire can be yours … for a price. Lost's Terry O'Quinn and Desperate Housewives' Vanessa Williams headline this scary, seductive drama from Alloy Entertainment as the owners of a Manhattan apartment building who recruit an idealistic young couple to manage the historic site with a dark history. The series also stars Rachael Taylor (Charlie's Angels), Dave Annable (Brothers & Sisters), Robert Buckley (One Tree Hill), Mercedes Masohn (The Finder), Helena Mattsson (Iron Man 2) and Samantha Logan (Law & Order: SVU). Matthew Miller (Chuck), David Wilcox (Fringe), Leslie Morgenstein (The Vampire Diaries), Gina Girolamo (The Secret Circle) and Alex Graves (Fringe) are the executive producers. Based upon the book series by Gabriella Pierce and from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Alloy Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television, 666 Park Avenue will air Sundays at 10/9c on ABC this fall. Watch the full-length pilot at Warner Bros. Television's Preview Night screening at Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 11, or during the 666 Park Avenue session on Friday, July 13.


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Mariemont High School girls' varsity soccer head coach, Mike Haney, has been selected as the 2012 NFHS Soccer State Coach of the Year for Ohio.
The NFHS Coaches Association is the official coaches association for the National Federation of High School.
The award recognizes Haney's service not only to the student athletes of Mariemont High School, but also to the local and Ohio Soccer Coaches Association.
"Mike Haney does an excellent job working with our athletes and preparing them for the season and beyond," said Tom Nerl, athletic director of Mariemont CIty Schools. "Not only does he work hard promoting our athletes, but he works hard promoting and improving the game in Ohio by serving as the Southwest Ohio Soccer Coaches Association president and a member of the OHSAA Board as the Ohio soccer coaches' representative."
Haney has headed up the Mariemont girls' soccer program since 1998. He has seen his squads achieve 14 consecutive winning seasons, two district championships and rankings among the top in the state. In 2011 he was named Division III Southwest Ohio Coach of the Year, Ohio Coach of The Year and NSCAA Regional Coach of The Year. Mike earned his National Diploma from the NSCAA and is licensed through the USSF.
He is also an avid fan of swimming and is a Level 1 official with USA Swimming. Mike is also the Physical Education teacher at Mariemont Junior High School and has been working in the district since 1996.
Haney holds a Masters degree in Secondary Education from Xavier University and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Cincinnati in Communications.


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Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
May 3, 2010
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), under the direction of and with financial support from Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan (CSTC-A), operates a civilian police training and advising program for the Afghan National Police (ANP) and Ministry of Interior. There are approximately 700 U.S. civilian police advisors at multiple facilities throughout Afghanistan who work directly with the ANP. The program, which started in 2003, has grown significantly in size and scope. Training for the ANP includes basic, advanced and specialized courses and is provided to elements of the ANP such as the Afghan Uniformed Police (AUP) and the Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP). Where possible, training is implemented through Focused District Development, a program geared towards increasing the capabilities of the police at the village and district level. Advising is conducted at all levels of the ANP, from entry-level patrolman in Afghan districts to senior Afghan officials within the Ministry of Interior. Specialized training and advising programs include criminal investigation training, a Women's Police Corp program to bolster the recruitment and role of females in the ANP, and Family Response Units that respond to incidents of domestic violence in Afghanistan.
- Approximately 700 civilian police mentors and trainers support curriculum development, train-the-trainer instruction, and on-the-job advising for the Afghan National Police.
- This total includes senior mentors who provide functionally-specific support and guidance to senior officials at the Ministry of Interior.
- 1 Central Training Center (CTC) in Kabul; 7 Regional Training Centers (RTC) in Mazar-e-Sharif, Konduz, Jalalabad, Bamiyan, Gardez, Kandahar, and Herat.
- Mentors are stationed at CTC/RTCs and multiple forward operating bases (FOBs) and provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) throughout Afghanistan.
- Nine cycles of Focused District Development (FDD) have been implemented in more than 80 districts nation-wide, resulting in nearly 14,000 trained ANP. Under the FDD process, students are trained in basic, advanced and leadership skills as appropriate. While in training, FDD students are verified for rank, receive temporary ID cards and electronic bank accounts (where possible), and are equipped prior to district reinsertion. FDD also reinforces skills learned during training by providing follow-on mentoring until ANP units reach a state of operational independence. Mentoring is a key aspect of FDD and is a vital part of developing the capabilities of ANP units. Staffing of police mentor teams (PMTs), ANCOP sustainment, and MOI political will remain key challenges to the program.
- Including FDD, more than 113,000 ANP have received basic, advanced, and specialized training at facilities across Afghanistan since 2003.
- There are 22 Family Response Units with civilian police advisors attached to police stations in seven provinces (Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Konduz, Jawzjan, Takhar, and Bamiyan). FRUs, which are largely staffed by female police, are a venue for women, children, and families to report violent incidents and family disputes to law enforcement authorities.
- The Women's Police Corp (WPC) program has been established to address the specific training needs of female recruits. The first WPC facility was opened in Kabul in late 2008 and has since graduated over 100 female police officers in 5 training cycles. Cycle 6 began in January 2010. A second WPC facility in Jalalabad opened in December and graduated its first class in January 2010.
- INL's civilian police program is funded through Afghan Security Forces Fund (ASFF) appropriations transferred each year from the Defense Department to the State Department under a Memorandum of Agreement between the agencies.
- $399m was transferred to State in 2007 and $391m was transferred in 2008. $261 million was transferred in 2009.
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H.Con.Res.286 - Recognizing the 235th birthday of the United States Army.111th Congress (2009-2010)
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KATE Cream Cheek Review & Swatches
Japanese brand KATE, released a few shades of their Cream Cheek Blush for Spring 2012. Not being a terribly big fan of cream blushes I decided to indulge anyway as these were really cheap, really cute, and I wanted something I could easily take with me on travels.
Let's take a peek at KATE Cream Cheek and see what the fuss is about.
These come in small glass jars with a screw top lids. The packaging is much like KATE's gel liners so if you're familiar with those that is indeed exactly what you are getting with these but a tiny bit bigger.
They come in four shades and around 990 yen per pot ($10-$12 USD or so).
They are actually a really cute cream blush and I like the formula a lot. These are a matte, dense cream that you can slip a finger into and apply directly from the pot. Mmm, not so sure I love dipping my finger into the pots but that is the best way to apply.
Colors aren't terribly pigmented but they blend easily and no matter how much you put on they are never, ever over done. The color is the real joy here as each shade I tried gave my cheeks a healthy, doll-like finish that was very, very pretty.
Typically I'm a little scared of orange shades from Japanese brands as they tend to go very dull on my skin but PK-3 is a lovely shade of glowing orange. I also indulged in PK-4 which is a lovely apricot pink.
PK-3 and PK-4
Overall, these are a really cute little pick if you like cream blushes. Wear time will vary but I find they fade fairly quickly so a touch up is required. But I adore how they give my skin a soft, healthy glow without looking too bold and/or vibrant. These are well worth a pick up for Summer looks.
I've seen them online for around $12-$14 per pot which isn't too badly priced (although Japanese retail is far nicer a price).
These deserve a Muse Approval.
Do pick them up!
Very cute.
I recommend AlphabeautyUK on E-bay for a purchase.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the seller in this post merely offering a suggestion for purchase.
This product was purchased by the Muse for review purposes.
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5/11/12 14:26 Southern Gorgeous:
Can they do double duty as lip creams as well?
5/11/12 14:29 Cj:
Wow these look really good! There's 2 more colors too 😀 I'm gonna order the orange one and the pk-2 color which looks like a nude peachy pink or something like that.
Ps: You should totes be getting something from alphabeautyuk lol, you don't wanna know how much stuff I bought from them thanks to you lol!
5/11/12 14:29 Tammie:
I want PK-4!! Price isn't so hot on eBay though, but I'll watch list it for now anyway
5/11/12 16:28 Caitlin:
Are they oil-based or silcone based? Can you tell?
5/11/12 17:11 Sung:
I am so tempted by cream blushes but how do you apply them? It doesn't look streaky when applied with fingers? Can cream blushes be worn over mineral makeup? Help!
5/12/12 2:58 Sarah S.:
The frosted glass jar looks nice, too
5/12/12 8:08 Jenny:
Goddess… on Ebay they´re almost $20 without shipping! I´ll try to find them in other online shops because I´m in love with the PK3 blush! (If someone knows other sites where you can purchase these blushes please let me know!) I searched in the AlphabeautyUK store and they have the gel liner brush which I´ve been trying to buy for a long time. I read reviews on that brush and the bloggers say it can do a really thin line with gel eyeliner, have you tried this brush Muse?
5/13/12 0:18 Popblush:
What gorgeous flattering shades! Pk-4 reminds me of my YSL Creme de blush in #2. I find my cream blushes last longer if I light dust a powder blush to set it. Thanks for the swatches!
5/13/12 14:16 vivavoomz:
They look really yummy. Would love to gt my hands on PK-3.
5/14/12 3:55 Shannon:
your swatches makes me want them! except I'm not a fan of cream blushes, and i'm additionally not a fan of blushes that don't last. x___x I already feel rather disappointed by the highly popular Canmake cream cheeks. I actually own the whole set because it was ranked so highly and i as in japan at the time…but i realyl hated how it lasts like an hour on me (even after i set it with a powder), so i sort of gave up. x____x if these have lack of lasting power as well, i'll probably skip them…
5/14/12 21:58 Dana:
I have this in PK-2 and I love it! Amazing quality and buildable color.
6/30/12 10:28 Maisie Lau:
Bought them (PK3 and PK4) tonight and thanks for the lovely review. Both colours are so beautiful on my skin and I cant wait to wear them!
Thanks for the review! The colors look so pretty…I'll have to check it out since i live in Japan!!! Will see how much it costs in Japan!!
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- 3-4 drops Orange NuStevia (optional)
- 2-3 drops of Lemon NuStevia (optional)
- 1 lime, cut into thin slices (I omitted)
- 1 to 2 teaspoons coarse sugar (I omitted)
- Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly mist a 12-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray, then dust with flour. Shake out the excess flour and set the pan aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix the cake mix, pudding mix, sugar, water, oil, 1/3 cup lime juice, ¼ cup tequila, 2 tablespoons orange liqueur, lime zest and eggs in a large mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until the ingredients are combined, abt 30 seconds. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula and mix on medium speed for 1½ minutes longer, scraping down the side of the bowl again if needed. The batter should look smooth and thick. Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan, smoothing the top with the rubber spatula, and place the pan in the oven.
- Bake the cake until the top springs back when lightly pressed with a finger, 42 to 47 minutes. Transfer the Bundt pan to a wire rack and let the cake cool for 10 to 15 minutes. Run a long, sharp knife around the edges of the cake, shake the pan gently, and invert the cake onto a wire rack. Let the cake cool completely, about 25 minutes longer. (My cake pulled away from the sides as it cooled and I didn't need to run a knife along the sides of the pan. It came out easily, unlike this one! My cake also fell some. ALL my cakes fall...I don't know what I'm doing wrong!)
- Meanwhile, make the glaze: Place the confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon tequila, 1 tablespoon orange liqueur, 1 tablespoon lime juice, and the lemon and orange Stevia drops in a small bowl and whisk until smooth. Slide the cake onto a serving plate. Using a long wooden skewer poke 12 to 16 holes in the top of the cake. Spoon the glaze over the top of the cake, letting it drip down the sides.
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The court of judgement of Tewodros II, painting by unknown artist
From Ethiopia
During the twentieth century, depictions of the court of judgement of Ethiopian emperors became a popular theme for artists in Ethiopia. These paintings show an emperor seated in judgement while around him those people who have broken his law are punished. It can perhaps be seen as an allegory of the Biblical Day of Judgement.
This painting, made in the 1940s, shows the court of judgement of Emperor Tewodros II, who ruled Ethiopia from 1855 to 1868. It graphically illustrates the cruelty with which Tewodros punished his opponents.
Tewodros II is shown seated beneath the silk brocade canopy of a royal tent and between two lions, a traditional symbol of Ethiopian royalty. The Emperor's retainers are gathered all around with their swords raised. To the left the clergy wearing embroidered capes and white turbans can be seen seated and with open books in their hands. In front of the Emperor in the foreground of the painting are five Rases (dukes) each wearing richly embroidered velvet cloaks. To the right prisoners wait to be judged by the court. On the left of the painting the punishments inflicted on those for breaking Tewodros' law are shown in detail.
During the mid-twentieth century, when this painting was made, artist's workshops in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa produced a large number of paintings in this style for the tourist market. Emperor Haile Selassie I (1892-1974) sought to restrict the production of these paintings because he was concerned by the negative image they represented of Ethiopia abroad.
This painting was discovered in Devizes, Wiltshire in 2003 and brought to the British Museum where conservators have relined and stretched the painting to preserve it for future generations.
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Height: 82.50 cm
Width: 142.50 cm
Height: 82.50 cm
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May 29, 2013
House Republicans' chief investigator issued a subpoena Tuesday for State Department documents that he said would shed light on how the administration wrote the "talking points" that were used to give a wrong impression of the September terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa told Secretary of State John F. Kerry to provide all communications regarding the talking points from 10 department officials, including Victoria Nuland, who was chief spokeswoman at the time, and Deputy Secretary William Burns.
"The State Department has not lived up to the administration's broad and unambiguous promises of cooperation with Congress," Mr. Issa said in a letter to Mr. Kerry that accompanied the subpoena.
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Last updated at 16:05, Friday, 27 May 2011
THE month of June, for many young people, is often associated with the final push to revise for examinations and to ensure that coursework is complete before looking forward to a well earned rest from education.
It can also provide an opportunity for school leavers, 17 and 18-year-olds to consider their progression options for the following year. Schools, colleges and the Connexions service will have worked tirelessly to ensure that young people have the information, advice and guidance that they require to make informed choices much earlier in the year but there is still time to make well considered decisions about study and training options.
There are also plenty of opportunities for adults to update their skills and qualifications as we recently publicised during the Adult Learners Week. As always with adults the focus is on providing the skills that will make people more employable is such a competitive environment for jobs. As we move into an uncertain and potentially expensive era for higher education, this year provides the final opportunity for adults to start foundation degrees and degrees before the increase in fees that will take place in 2012.
For the year beginning in September there is the additional excitement of knowing that from early in 2012, students at Furness College will be moving into some of the best new education and training facilities in the country.
The main new £41m build will be up and running during the next academic year and will provide fantastic new facilities, that will enhance the educational and social experience for all students. Having recently walked around the new building for the first time, I was taken aback by the scale of the building and what it will provide for Barrow and the Furness area.
The most prominent developments will be the salon and spa area for Hair and Beauty, the restaurant and kitchen area for Catering and Hospitality, the industry standard garage facilities for Motor Vehicle Engineering and the purpose build university centre on the top floor of the new building. There will also be brand new workshops for engineering and construction that will allow students' work to be visibly showcased rather than hidden away at the back of the campus.
One of the problems that we have always had at the college is the availability of social space for students to enjoy any spare time and to participate in informal learning.
The new build will have two cafes, an outdoor terrace at first floor level, dedicated learning resource hubs and numerous breakout spaces throughout the building. In addition there will be a street space that joins the diverse areas of the college and provide a single space covering all four floors.
If you are undecided about your future education, you want to enhance your job opportunities or you just want your education to benefit from the new college build visit the Furness College website www.furness.ac.uk or call 01229 825017 for information all of our courses.
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It rained all day from the morning on the 19th of August, but it did not stop 150 futsal fans to gather at the "Nike Miyashita Cup" fustal tournament held in Miyashita Park, Shibuya. This event, organized by NIKE and Shibuya ward and gathering an eclectic crowd of stylists, sneakerheads, fashionistas as well as regular futsal fans from the Shibuya area, had the particularity of covering all its electricity needs (mainly lights and PA) from solar power it saved beforehand over a week. This energy and eco-friendly tournament was won by the very strong SOPH team, composed of the brand's staff.
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Monitored During Compounding by an Online Dielectric Sensor
Yu-Hsin Lee, Anthony J. Bur, Steven C. Roth and Paul Start
MSEL, Polymers Division
Polymer/clay nanocomposites are industrially important materials because a small amount of clay filler (less than 5 % by weight) mixed with the polymer resin produces vastly improved mechanical and thermal properties compared to the unfilled polymer. A key factor that controls the properties of the compounded product is the extent of exfoliation and intercalation of the clay particles in the polymer matrix. Exfoliation is the process of reducing micron size clay particles to nano size silicate flakes and dispersing the flakes throughout the resin matrix. Analyzing and quantifying the amount of exfoliation of a compounded product usually involves extensive post processing examination using X-ray and transmission electron microscope (TEM) observations. The objective of this project is the application of dielectric and optical instrumentation to monitor the microstructure of the composite during processing, thus eliminating time consuming off-line measurements. We will present real-time measurements during compounding of nylon 11 with organo-modified clays using an innovative dielectric slit die sensor that was attached to a twin screw extruder. The organic modification of the clays involves an ion exchange of Na+ ions in the gallery regions between silicate layers of the natural clay with alkyl ammonium ions that render the clays more compatible with organic resins. Several organo-modified clays are used in this study to produce nanocomposites with varying amounts of exfoliation. On-line dielectric and optical transmission data are correlated with off-line X-ray and TEM observations to establish relationships between on-line and off-line determinations of the extent of exfoliation. The dielectric data display a Maxwell-Wagner relaxation whose characteristic frequency is a function clay microstructure where the characteristic frequency decreases with the extent of exfoliation. The on-line optical transmission data also correlate with the extent of exfoliation where optical transmission increases with the exfoliation because the exfoliated nano particles are too small to scatter light. Using the optical transmission and Maxwell-Wagner characteristic frequency, we establish an exfoliation scale that can be used to quantify the extent of exfoliation.
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With a lineup full of new starters, defending Class 5A champion McGuinness has gradually climbed up the rankings, and on Saturday night, the Irish showed that this is officially a reloading year, not a rebuilding year.
Boys basketball roundup: McGuinness powers past Edmond North
With yet another strong defensive performance, McGuinness defeated Class 6A No. 9 Edmond North 56-42 in the finals of the McGuinness Classic.
Senior David Love scored 15 points, sophomore Will Lienhard had 14 and junior Stephen Amalong added 12 for the Irish, who improved to 10-2 on the season — but undefeated against in-state competition.
Defense keyed the title run. McGuinness allowed 29.7 points per game in the three contests.
"Just a good ol' blue-collar team," McGuinness coach Tondrell Durham said. "Last year, we had some seniors who were some pretty good scorers. This year, we've got a complete team. Nobody cares who scores and they play hard defensively."
The game was tight all the way through, but McGuinness was able to close it with a 12-5 run to put it away.
Carlbe Ervin led Edmond North with 16 points.
Top-ranked Midwest City scored the first 15 points of the game, and by the middle of the first quarter, little doubt remained in the Putnam City Invitational championship game.
Lawton Eisenhower kept it respectable but never threatened the Bombers, who cruised to a 68-47 win at Putnam City North.
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Under AAAResearchReports.com Microscope: Nike Inc., Coach Inc., Deckers Outdoor Corp., and Iconix Brand Group Inc. PR Newswire LONDON, October 31, 2013 LONDON, October 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Editor Note: For more information about this release, please scroll to bottom. OnWednesday, October 30, 2013, all three benchmark indexes of the US equity market declined, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ Composite falling by 0.39%, 0.49%, and 0.55%, respectively. Shares in the textile - apparel footwear and accessories industry ended mostly on a positive note, even as the broader market declined. The major movers in the industry included NIKE Inc. (NYSE: NKE), Coach Inc. (NYSE: COH), Deckers Outdoor Corporation (NASDAQ: DECK), and Iconix Brand Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ICON). AAAResearchReports.com has released full comprehensive research on NKE, COH, DECK, and ICON. These free technical analyses can be downloaded by signing up at: http://www.aaaresearchreports.com/register/ Shares in NIKE Inc. edged higher on Wednesday, hitting a new 52-week high of $76.89. The company's shares fluctuated between$75.95 and $76.89before closing the day 0.29% higher at$76.13. A total of 3.16 million shares were traded, which is below the daily average volume of 4.14 million. The company's shares have surged 21.13% in the previous three months, outperforming the S&P 500, which has gained 4.59% during the same period. Furthermore, NIKE Inc.'s stock is currently trading above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages of $69.78 and $62.52, respectively. A free technical analysis on NKE available by signing up at: http://www.AAAResearchReports.com/NKE103113.pdf On Wednesday, Coach Inc.'s stock ended the session 0.14% higher than the previous day's price of $50.76. The company's shares oscillated between $50.65 and $51.13 before closing the day at $50.83. A total of 4.08 million shares were traded, which is above the daily average volume of 4.07 million. The company's shares have gained 1.88% in the previous three trading sessions, outperforming the S&P 500, which has gained 0.20% during the same period. However, Coach Inc.'s stock is trading below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages of $53.38 and $54.04, respectively. Register today and access free research on COH at: http://www.AAAResearchReports.com/COH103113.pdf Shares in Deckers Outdoor Corp. fell by 1.44% on Wednesday, closing at $67.16, after trading between $66.69 and $68.62 during the trading session. A total of 0.91 million shares were traded, which is below the daily average volume of 1.18 million. Despite Wednesday's decline, Deckers Outdoor Corp.'s stock has surged 23.03% in the previous three months, outperforming the S&P 500, which has gained 4.59% during the respective period. 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'Comatose since Christmas 1969: a tale of unconditional love and miracles'
Catholic World News - December 24, 2012
Edwarda O'Bara, who lived in a comatose state for nearly 43 years, died recently at her home in Florida at the age of 59.
O'Bara, who fell into a diabetic coma at the age of 16, was surrounded by the care of a loving family, including her late mother, who corresponded with Pope John Paul II and said that the Blessed Mother appeared to her. Some who visited Edwarda reported being healed of diseases.
Others, however, wanted O'Bara dead. CNN reported:
The Hemlock Society phoned often, pleading with the mother to let her daughter die. The day after Christmas in 1981, someone called to say he was going to put Edwarda out of her misery. A few hours later, three bullets were fired into the home. No one was hurt.
"I will cherish the big smile and the twinkle in her eyes Edwarda gave me right before she went to join all the angels in heaven," said her sister, who served as Edwarda's primary caregiver after their mother's death in 2008. "That is what helps me make it through each day. My sister taught me so much about unconditional love and patience."
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