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CARLSBAD, Calif. — Lester Tenney was stunned to receive a call that Japan's new ambassador to the United States would see him. He had tried for years to seek an apology from Japanese officials for the atrocities he witnessed and endured as a prisoner of war during World War II.
His letters and calls seeking justice and reconciliation were routinely ignored.
Then, on Veterans Day 2008, more than 63 years after the end of the war, Tenney was visiting Arlington National Cemetery when word finally came. The Japanese embassy was closed for the holiday, so Ichiro Fujisaki invited the former POW to his home. The two men and their wives sipped tea. The ambassador asked how he might help.
The unexpected rapprochement led to friendship, and to Sunday's trip to Japan by a group of American POWs, including Tenney. Although Japan has hosted former POWs from other nations since 1995, it will be the country's first ever sponsored trip aimed at reconciling with American POWs.
Tenney says he plans to bow to the Japanese out of respect and courtesy for the first time as he meets with lawmakers and foreign ministry officials, not out of fear as he did during the war.
"It's going to mean we're finally treated like first-class citizens," Tenney said at his home in a gated retirement community near San Diego, a fountain gurgling in his small Japanese garden.
At 90, Tenney remains a barrel-chested raconteur with a booming voice and sharp wit.
Fujisaki, 63, was born two years after the war ended. He had been on the job only five months, but knew that Tenney had not received any response from Japanese officials.
"This request came and we thought, 'Why not, if this gentleman wants to meet us?' " the ambassador said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The conversation had been welling in Tenney since April 9, 1942, when the United States surrendered on the Philippines' Bataan Peninsula, ending a four-month battle. Thousands died walking for days in tropical heat to prison camp.
Tenney doesn't remember how many prisoners he saw beheaded, killed by bayonet or shot to death on the infamous Bataan Death March — dozens, perhaps more than 100. Many more died in the next few weeks from disease.
He told the ambassador that he saw a Japanese guard order two Americans to bury a malaria-stricken mate alive because he was too weak to stand. When they refused, the guard shot one dead. The next Americans pulled from the line buried both soldiers — one dead, one alive and screaming.
"When you have to watch your own friends get killed and you have to stand there and can't do a thing, it is awful," Tenney said in a later interview, his voice shaking with emotion. "It stays with you forever."
For three years, Tenney worked 12-hour days in a Japanese coal mine, watching men die in droves from disease. He ate only three small bowls of rice a day. He remembers an American medic who amputated limbs with a steak knife, without anesthetics.
Tenney told the ambassador that afternoon that he had three wishes: an apology from the Japanese government, an apology from Japanese companies that enslaved the POWs, and a government-paid trip to Japan for American POWs.
After darkness fell, Fujisaki opened the taxi door for the Tenneys. The ambassador's wife kissed them goodbye.
As the men exchanged letters over the next few months, Tenney began pressing the ambassador to say a few words at the last annual convention of American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor in May 2009. The group was disbanding after 63 years because too few veterans remained.
Fujisaki wavered until the last day. He said he decided to go only after Tenney stopped insisting that he deliver good news to the former POWs, that his presence would be enough.
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Women's Track and Field Places Sixth At Horizon League Indoor Championships
Feb. 28, 2005
Greencastle, Ind. - University of Illinois at Chicago senior distance runner Jenni Goebel turned in a pair of top-four finishes over the weekend to help the women's track and field squad to a sixth-place finish in the Horizon League Indoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by Butler, at DePauw University.
Goebel was a runner-up in the 5,000-meter run with a season-best, time of 17:32.48 and wrapped up the weekend with a fourth-place mark of 10:20.67 in the 3,000-meter run.
Youngstown State captured the overall title with 165 points, followed by UW-Milwaukee (103), Loyola (84), Detroit (72), Butler (41), UIC (41), and Wright State (24).
Sophomore Laura Otepka added a second-place finish in the high jump, with a season-best, leap of 1.58 meters, while classmate Rowsha LaBranche placed third overall in the 400-meter dash, crossing the finish line in 58.66.
UIC will wrap up the indoor season on Saturday morning, as they will travel to South Bend, Ind., to participate in the Alex Wilson Invitational at 11:00 a.m. (CST).

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Hurricane Igor rapidly hits Category 4 in Atlantic
Published: Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 13, 2010 at 9:47 a.m.
MIAMI — Forecasters say Hurricane Igor has rapidly strengthened to a Category 4 storm in the open Atlantic. It doesn't immediately threaten land, but is expected to get stronger as it moves west.
Meanwhile, a tropical depression off the coast of Africa prompted officials to issue a tropical storm warning for parts of the Cape Verde Islands on Sunday.
Igor had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph and was moving west at 14 mph (22 kph). Some additional strengthening is expected in the next two days.
The center of the storm was located about 1,065 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands.
Forecasters also warned that the newly formed depression could strengthen into a tropical storm as early as tonight. The storm warning was issued for the southern Cape Verde Islands, including Maio, Sao Tiago, Fogo and Brava.
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S R (sr_ng_at_duz.not.exist.com) wrote:
: Designer Version is 10.1.2.0.2.
: Whenever I generate the schema/ddl creation scripts after making minor
: changes, I like to compare the new scripts against the last set just to
: make sure the changes are as I expect. The trouble is each time I
: regenerate, the order of the items is different each time, making
: comparisons difficult.
: I've tried looking for a setting in the preference sets but there isn't
: anything obvious . Anyone know how to tell it to set the order of the
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My kludgey work around: I have used something like the following to force a sorted order for comparisons of scripts such as the ones created by designer.
perl -e "BEGIN{ $/=''} print sort <>" XXX.con .ind .etc
C:> perl -e "BEGIN{ $/=''} print sort <>" sclr.ind > sclr.ind.0
then generate, then
C:> perl -e "BEGIN{ $/=''} print sort <>" sclr.ind > sclr.ind.1
then diff the before and after
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May 27, 2016
Great Lakes Home Health and Hospice nurses can monitor their patients every day without having to drive to the patients' homes.
New technology measures patients' vital signs from home and sends the results back to a registered nurse. The nurse can then intervene if the patient needs to be assessed by a medical professional.
Telehealth is not for every home health care patient, and it is not covered by many health insurance plans.
But Cheri Lyn Deary of Great Lakes Home Health and Hospice says this new system is the future of home health care. She says it saves money by intervening before patients get real sick and have to be taken to the hospital or the emergency room. It also allows nurses to monitor more patients in less time.
If you would like more information, visit www.greatlakeshomehealth.com.
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An excerpt from "The Winter Olympics: An Insider's Guide to the Legends, the Lore, and the Games" by Ron C. Judd, a Seattle Times staff reporter.
Much of the derision surrounding curling as an Olympic sport can be attributed to a widespread lack of knowledge about how the game actually works. Taking a few moments to familiarize oneself with the rules and setup can turn it into an enjoyable, albeit low-key, spectator sport. If you choose not to understand its inner workings, curling will look, well, just silly.
Field of Play
Curling is a game of skill and strategy played on a rectangular sheet of ice measuring 138 feet (42 meters) long and a little over 14 feet (4.2 meters) wide. At each end of the rink is a "house," a series of concentric rings that looks like a large target painted under the ice. The center circle, or the bull's-eye of the target, is called the button. A line running through the center of the button, from side to side as players face it, is called the tee line. Surrounding the button are three more concentric target rings measuring 4 feet, 8 feet, and 12 feet (1.2, 2.4, and 3.7 meters) wide, respectively.
At each end of the ice, behind the house, is a "hack"—two rubber blocks that serve as a push-off point for curlers, team members who deliver 42-pound curling "stones" toward the house on the other end by sliding them carefully along the ice for some distance and then releasing them.
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Another prominent feature of the rink is the "hog line," a red line about a fourth of the way down the rink on each end that delineates the final point at which a curler can release a stone.
Curling ice is groomed to keep it perfectly level, then, unlike other competition ice, treated with a light spray of water before each game. The water freezes in place to form a granular surface more conducive to stone sliding.
Format, Rules, and Strategy
In some ways, curling is quite similar to lawn bowling or shuffleboard: The object is to place stones as near to the button, or center of the target, as possible while preventing the other team's stones from doing the same. You're awarded 1 point for every stone you have closer to the button than your opposition's closest stone. (Thus, only one team scores during each "end" of play.)
Teams consist of four curlers per side—a "skip," or team captain who stands at the opposing house and directs shots from teammates; a "vice skip" or "third" at the other end of the ice, helping with strategy; and a "lead" and "second," whose job it is to throw the first and second stones and then influence their path down the ice by "sweeping" the ice in front of the stone with specially made brooms. The vice skip and skip also deliver stones, curling third and fourth, respectively. When the skip curls, the vice skip takes his or her place in the opposite house.
Using a broom for balance, curlers push off the hack at the end of the rink and slide ahead on one forward foot and one knee, holding the stone by the handle and releasing it with a spin—this is the "curl"—to give it the proper trajectory. A properly curled stone is often likened to a very slow-breaking curveball; the degree of spin gives it lateral movement.
The skip will direct two teammates to sweep the ice in front of an approaching stone, either to change its curl or to make it travel farther by reducing the friction on the ice in front of it.
The two teams alternate stone throws until all curlers have thrown two stones, for a total of 16. This constitutes one "end" of a game. (An end is like an inning in baseball.) Every game has 10 ends. The points are tallied up after each end, and the scoring team goes first in the next end, in which the stones are thrown in the opposite direction.
The team with the most points at the end of 10 ends wins. If it's a tie, an extra end is played.
Strategy revolves around placement. Curlers can aim to deliver a "draw" stone, or one that stops somewhere within the playing surface, or a "takeout"—a shot designed specifically to bounce the other team's stone out of the field of play. Strategically placed draw stones that come to rest in front of another stone, thereby preventing the opposition from taking that stone out, are called "guard stones."
Watch it for a while and, although you might not pick up all the confusing terminology (for example, in curling the term "rink" is synonymous with "team," as in "the Pete Fenson rink"), the game will begin to make sense.
Because each team curls eight stones per end, the maximum score for an end is 8 points, but teams usually wind up scoring 1 to 3 points. A game of 10 ends typically lasts about 2.5 hours, or about 15 minutes per end.
Training and Equipment
Although advocates point out that sweepers must be nimble on their feet and wind up walking the equivalent of up to 2 miles per match, this is hardly a sport you're likely to see featured in a Gatorade commercial. It is, however, undoubtedly a precision pursuit. So the best training for curling is curling. Lots of practice makes perfect.
Curling is the one door left slightly ajar in the Olympics for "normal" folks—people without stupendous athletic ability. Most curlers have full-time careers outside their sport: Pete Fenson, captain or "skip" of the U.S. men's bronze medal team at the Turin Games, operates a two-restaurant pizza chain, Dave's Pizza, in Bemedji and Brainerd, Minnesota. Other Olympic curlers have been housewives, bankers, salesmen, science teachers, students, and consultants. Most of them are introduced to the sport through family or friends who belong to local curling leagues. The best of them advance to regional, then national competitions.
Dress is ice casual; curlers wear what appear to be track suits, with stretchy pants for all that bending and jackets that can be taken off should a curler manage to get warm.
Curling stones are made of granite, almost all of which is quarried in Scotland and delivered around the world in extremely low-riding container ships. They're round spheres, slightly concave on the top and bottom, carefully balanced, with a plastic handle affixed to the top. Stones weigh 42 pounds (19 kilograms), with a diameter of 1 foot (30 centimeters) and a height of about 4.5 inches (11.5 centimeters). They never lift off the ice during competition—or at least one would hope not.
Shoes are low-cut, bowling style, allowing for ankle flexing while delivering the stone. The sole of the shoe on the foot used to slide out front during delivery (the left shoe for a right-hander) is slippery. The other shoe has a nonslip rubber sole.
Brooms have plastic handles and look an awful lot like a kitchen sponge mop, with a universal joint at the head allowing it to flex in all directions.


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Oh how the times "they are are-a-changin'":
The information age creates new paradigms long before universities can adopt them. As this more and more becomes the case; life experience is proving to be just as useful to make a living as a college degree.
Evidence of this is everywhere take for instance just looking at a single class of higher education – LAW:
- Law Schools lowering tuition
- Scholarship mistakes costing law schools millions
- Law schools lying to prospective students about the potential jobs
With the "mountains" (once a firm place to build your future on) of the educational system collapsing around them a new generation of thought leaders and entrepreneurs are emerging everywhere to pick up the latency between what is known and what is taught.
In the tradition of men like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Buckminster Fuller, successful, but un-lettered, leaders like Bill Gates, James Cameron, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs who, along with many other successful college dropouts, forged ahead to make their dreams come true despite not having any college credentials.
For anyone who as their eyes open, the evidence is all around from documentaries about and amazing group of young business owners like the startup kids, to remarkable stories about independent game developers doing it all on their own, to independent recording artist leveraging crowd funding to make their next album a reality. These and many other events like today's story really show how apparent it is that times are changing.
We are migrating away from "highly educated" leaders toward high toward "highly experienced" ones. Some have even put together articles on the most useless degrees out there. Yup the times are changing indeed.
Today's top story about 20 Teenagers who get $100,000 to drop out of college and start a business is clear evidence of this change in paradigm.
Read more about the news and information related to this remarkable phenomenon here.


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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The University of West Georgia will host "Broken Glass," a senior student exhibit by Michelle Lawrence from Monday, Dec. 8, through Friday, Dec. 12, in the second floor gallery of the Humanities Building.
A closing reception with the artist is scheduled at 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 12. The exhibit and reception are free and the community is invited to attend.
Lawrence, an Austell resident, is inspired by words and sounds to create art, rather than visuals like most of her colleagues. Topics that compel Lawrence to debate create the subject matter for her art pieces.
"My work becomes a speech or dissertation about the things I observe and desire to comment on," said Lawrence. "My hope is that my artwork provides a mental stimulus in the viewer that does not passively conform to my ideas, but rather challenge the ideas he or she has always been fed."
Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. For more information, call 678-839-6521 or e-mail Lawrence at email@example.com.


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Albertsons Store Wedding Cakes
The best part in wedding planning is selecting your wedding cake, but is also one of the hardest decision. According to your budget you can buy your wedding cake from a grocery stores or from a baker store.
Some people spend even $ 1500 if they order their cake from a famous bakery. At a local bakery the prices vary from $ 500 up according to the decorations, the frosting, number of layers you select. If you don't want to spend too much you can buy your wedding cake from a grocery store. Grocery stores have lower prices for wedding cakes, they don't offer custom made wedding cakes and the variety is much more limited. A bakery can offer many flavors, filling and frosting and decoration options. Now it is your decision.
You can order your wedding cake from Albertsons where you can find affordable wedding cakes. They provide custom cakes, selection of icing, frosting, filling and layers and customized colors. When deciding on the number of tiers you should know the number of guests you will have, three tiers will serve 100 guests, for 200 guests you should choose a wedding cake with five layers.
You can select the exquisite fondant wedding cake a chocolate cake with 3 layers in square shape decorated with brown ribbon and green fum paste flowers. Cake size: 12'', 10'', 6'', can serve 122 people.
If you are planning your wedding on a beach you can select the seaside embrace fondant wedding cake, it is a three layer round wedding cake, decorated with starfish, pearls and shells, cake size: 10'', 8'', 6'' and can serve 75 people.
Or you can choose a square white fondant wedding cake decorated with pink and brown satin and fresh flowers. The fresh flowers are not included in the price, the cake size: 12'', 10'', 6'' and can serve 122 guests. Albertsons bakery has a great selection of custom cakes for all occasion. For the same cake at a bakery shop you will pay more. At Albertsons you can buy a good wedding cake for not more than $ 350. Albertsons provides mostly fondant wedding cake. The fondant frosting is more cheap and so delicious as a buttercream wedding cake.
Buying your wedding cake from Albertsons store can be a good idea, if you want a simple, classical, affordable wedding cake.


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Index of Memorial Resolutions and Biographical Sketches
Alex Vallance, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was born on February 14, 1887, in Youngstown, Ohio. He received a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University in 1909, and a master's degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1929.
Professor Vallance taught at Ohio State University and the Georgia School of Technology. He joined the faculty of UT Austin in 1921 and resigned in 1938.
Professor Vallance coauthored Principles of Mechanism (1933) and Design of Machine Members (1938, 1943, 1951, and 1964).
Professor Vallance was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and the Machine Design Clearing House.
John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty
Biographical sketch prepared by Teresa Palomo Acosta and posted on the Faculty Council web site on January 18, 2001.


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TEMPO rhythms of life
Life as a National Geographic Photographer is a syncopated rhythm that oscillates between frenetic and placid. Jason Edward's photography mimics his life; with alacrity, emotion, and with formidable patience
Jason has obtained rare and amazing photographs from some of the worlds most remote places.
The gentle visual rhythms of the Namibian desert, the stampeding motion of wildebeest or the anticipated moment of water droplets falling, Jason's images capture the tempo of life.
Jason Edwards
Jason Edwards is an award-winning photographer with the National Geographic Society and is represented by the National Geographic Image Collection.
Jason has photographed in more than two-dozen countries and is highly regarded for his wildlife and remote landscape photography. Widely published, his work has appeared in National Geographic Magazine, Australian Geographic, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Aqua Geographia, and Nature Australia. He has also authored and photographed two children's books.
With a reputation for self-reliance and an ability to adapt Jason's assignments have taken him to some of the most remote and inhospitable areas on the planet. It is his love of less developed regions,and his ability to depict even well known subjects in a unique manner that has separated his images from the mainstream.
In 2004 Jason was awarded the inaugural 'Pursuit of Excellence' Award by the Australian Geographic Society, "for his extreme efforts and absolute commitment to obtaining rare and amazing photographs."


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Applying to the Program
Middlesex Community College currently accepts 40 students in the fall of each year to the Dental Hygiene Program. The program is a full time day program. Admission to the program is competitive.
Follow the link below for information about the admissions process and required application for admittance forms.


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Hey guys got 2 twins for you today both are strung with Bury Mesh made by the one and only Warna37. I was going for low to mid whip and a smooth transition and thats exactly what I got. This is just a preface to a mini megathread that should be coming your way so keep an eye out for that.
The first head is a STX Eclipse with faded Bury Mesh its sitting on a warrior klyte.
Second head is a Brine Eraser with white Bury Mesh sitting on a Easton Stealth


text: The Zac Brown Band would love to turn all of their tour dates into their Southern Ground Music & Food Festivals. Those special shows combine gourmet food and the music of some of Zac Brown Band's personal favorite acts, as well as a headlining performance from the band. So far this year, there's only two on the calendar — September 21st and 22nd in Nashville and October 20th and 21st in Charleston, South Carolina.


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I have very small implants and went from a very small A to a B. This was done 3 weeks ago and I am a active person and was told to wait about 4 weeks before I start exercise again. My question is will moderate exercise affect my implants in any way such as streching them and making them look smaller, changing where they sit, or cause them to break any sooner then they would have had I not exercised as much?
Will Exercise Affect my Breast Implants in Any Way?
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Exercise post Breast Implants
Web reference: http://www.drkrisreddy.com/west_palm_beach_breast_augmentation_palm_beach.html
Exercise aftr breat augmentation
Once you get the clearance from your doctor to go back to the gym and exercise then you should be fine to do almost anything.
Web reference: http://www.stevenwallachmd.com
Exercising After Breast Augmentation
Exercising after breast augmentation is a very common concern for most women and surgeons alike. There is no perfect answer, but there are a few considerations. How much surgery did you have (augmentation vs lift etc)? How far from surgery are you? How active were you before surgery?
In short, the brief answer is that you can return to the gym (assuming no complications etc) at about three weeks after your procedure for non impact/non chest activities (walking on treadmill, bike etc). By 6 weeks, most surgeons would release you to no restrictions and stopping activities that cause you pain.
Best of luck
Vincent Marin, MD, FACS
La Jolla Plastic Surgeon
Web reference: http://www.marinaesthetics.com/breast-augmentation/
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Will exercise affect my breast implants in any way
You should wait at least three weeks before you resume lighter exercise and at least 4-6 weeks before you take part in contact sports. If you are already in good shape, as long as you remain somewhat active, you will be just fine to hit the field again. Make sure you wear a very supportive bra as well
Exercisse and Breast Augmentation
Every surgeon has an opinion on when and what kind of exercising can be resumed after Breast Augmentation. Several considerations are at play: immediate post-surgical recovery (swelling, raising blood pressure resulting in bleeding, stressing surgical repair etc) and long-term healing concerns. Most surgeons agree that some MILD excercise without acute raising of blood pressure and without using the pectoralis muscles can be done by three weeks after surgery as long as a good support bra is worn. By a month, more vigorous exercise can be engaged in. I would prefer that chest strengthening exercises wait until 6 weeks after surgery and throughout that you wear a good bra support. Before you do anything, you really should consult with your own Plastic surgeon.
Web reference: http://www.TheBeautyDoctors.com
VIDEO: effect of exercise on implant displacement
See VIDEO BELOW for the effect of exercise on implant displacement. We generally advise patients to avoid pectoralis strengthening.
Web reference: http://www.bodysculptor.com/breast-surgery-chicago/breast-enlargement/
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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911 lines down in Richfield, calls routed to Bath police
RICHFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio - 911 lines are not working in Richfield Township Tuesday morning, police say.
Calls are being routed to Bath police at this time, so if you have an emergency you are still advised to dial 911.
Business lines at 330-659-9500 are still working. For peninsula, you can call 330-657-2911.
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Serves six to eight
Basic firm polenta (see recipe), cut into eight squares
Olive oil
1 onion, finely diced (about 1 cup)
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3 garlic cloves, minced
Salt and pepper
3 cups canned diced tomatoes, with juice
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon roughly chopped capers
¼ cup roughly chopped pitted black olives
4 anchovy fillets, rinsed and chopped
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
Large eggs, for frying
1. Paint tops of polenta squares lightly with olive oil. Heat a stovetop grill or cast-iron griddle. Lay polenta top-side down and cook until nicely browned and crisp, about 10 minutes. Flip and brown the other side. Keep warm.
2. For the sauce, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a heavy saucepan. Add onion and cook over medium heat until softened, about five minutes. Add garlic, season with salt and pepper, and cook for one minute more. Add tomatoes and bay leaf and simmer briskly for five to eight minutes, until thickened slightly. Add capers, olives and anchovies and cook for two minutes more. Season with red pepper flakes and a little more salt if necessary.
3. On each plate, put one square of warm polenta and spoon sauce around it. For each diner, fry 1 or 2 eggs sunny-side up in olive oil, and place on top of sauce. Serve immediately.
From David Tanis, The New York Times


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Photo of the Week: Sustainable Rural Development in Mozambique
May 24, 2013
The Agro-Forestry Village Program is paving an environmentally and economically sustainable path for rural communities in Mozambique.
Employees at the tree nursery of the Green Resources forestry company in Nampula, Mozambique, load seedlings for a shipment to an agro-forestry plantation. The plantation is one of many that TechnoServe is helping establish on deforested, abandoned farmlands to mitigate the effects of years of slash-and-burn farming practices and promote sustainable economic opportunities for thousands of rural Mozambican workers and farmers.
With support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food for Progress program, the Agro-Forestry Village Program represents an innovative and integrated approach to rural development. The program seeks to develop an environmentally sustainable plantation forestry industry and transform 10,000 subsistence farmers into commercial farmers growing crops such as soybeans, corn and groundnuts. In addition, TechnoServe is promoting investment in the grain and poultry industries and developing the capacity of local governments to drive economic development. In total, the program aims to break the cycle of poverty for roughly 60,000 workers, farmers and their family members.
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- Friday January 4th, 2013 :: 03:51 p.m. EST
Old Tappan Police Chief Thomas Shine with recent residential area burglary information. Residential advisory.
Northern Bergen Co. and southern Rockland Co. NY communities have recently experienced a series of residential home break and entries. Unfortunately, Old Tappan has had incidents of this nature occur. The responsible individual(s) have chosen unoccupied homes that appear to be dark, between the hours of 5pm and 7pm. They survey neighborhoods seeking dark homes that exhibit signs of being unoccupied. They ring a door bell to determine if someone is home. Forced entry is usually made via a doorway or window. Once inside, money, jewelry and similar valuables are sought. These individual(s) usually remain inside for a short period of time. Old Tappan residents are requested to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity to the Police Department immediately. This would include suspicious persons or vehicles in your neighborhood. If you see something, say something. To avoid the potential of your home being selected, residents should have their homes appear occupied and well lighted after sunset. Service and set home alarm systems. Remove any conditions such as accumulated newspapers & mail that may invite persons with unlawful intent to select your home as a target of opportunity. Old Tappan Patrol Officers have been placing 3.5 x 8.5 yellow Courtesy Security Awareness cards in the mailboxes of homes that exhibit some of these conditions. Please join with us in continuing to make Old Tappan a safe and secure place to live. If you have any questions or wish to discuss this matter, we invite you to call us at Old Tappan Police Headquarters at 201-664-1221. Thank you.
Old Tappan Police Department
21 Russell Ave
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 201-664-1221


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When I download old emails from another account into Zimbra, how do I get Zimbra to show these emails actual date instead of the current time that Zimbra received these emails? Because now, all these old emails are showing as the latest emails in Zimbra.
Also, I like to move all these old emails to another folder according to dates. So I use search by date to filter them. But when I select all, it only select those that are loaded or visible, which is about 100 emails. Even when I shift click and Zimbra claim that it has selected all, including those that are not loaded yet, it still select about 150 emails instead of all, which is about 2000 emails. This means that I have to keep doing this for 20 times! Another funny problem is once I shift-click and drag into a new folder, I am no longer allow to drag more items from the inbox and drop into the same folder again. Is this a known bug?
Anyone has workaround or more productive method?
Some serious issues:
When I make a mistake and decided to cancel downloading of huge emails, how do I stop the download? There is no cancel get email button. The only solution I can think of is to remove the external account. But when I do that, it still continue to download. Worse, it keep downloading over 4000 emails despite that account only have 1000 email. What happen???


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Bobby Pace has been working with students at the Community College of Aurora since 2008. His fields of study include international relations, political theory and a concentration on human rights with his curren research focusing on the political uses of martyrdom spectacles among fundamentalist movements. Before teaching at CCA, Bobby also served as Lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder, the University of Denver and Virginia Tech. He holds a Bachelors of Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, a Masters of Arts from Virginia Tech and is currently finishing his Doctor of Philosophy from the Joseph Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. In addition to his teaching duties, Bobby also serves as the faculty advisor to Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Pi Pi chapter here at CCA.


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Shared initiatives among the six colleges are aimed at enhancing the quality of education, enriching student experiences, and reducing costs through sharing of resources.
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The case of a former Parker police officer accused of killing his girlfriend is now back in court.
Mark Bomia is charged with first degree murder for shooting and strangling Anna Beach last September. The city of Parker is being sued by the victim's family because Bomia allegedly committed the crime while on-duty. Now Bomia's lawyer is filing a motion to suppress some evidence in the case, as well as a statement Bomia gave investigators. According to reports, Bomia claims captain Jimmy Stanford threatened to go after his mom and sister if he didn't give a statement.
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Marshall wrote:
> Chris Smith wrote:
>>- You don't need faces; just a (unordered) nodes and edges.
Marshall, I direct your attention to _Written in Anger_ EDW 696.
Suppose one labelled each of the above nodes A, B, C, D respectively. One has the following edges: AB, AC, BD, CD and finally BC.
There is a region that is adjacent to AB, AC, BD and CD that is not adjacent to BC regardless whether one draws BC through the middle of the square or around the square. Lets call that region ABCD.
Likewise, there is a region that is adjacent to AB, AC and BC that is not adjacent to BD or CD. Let's call that region ABC. Similarly, there is a region adjacent to BD, CD and BC that is not adjacent to AB or AC. Let's call that region BCD.
If you draw BC through the square, then ABCD is the outer region with ABC and BCD on either side of BC inside the square.
If you draw BC below the square, then ABC is the outer region, BCD lies between BC and the square, while ABCD is the interior of the square.
If you draw BC above the square, then BCD is the outer region, ABC lies between BC and the square, while again ABCD is the interior of the square.
However, in all the above cases, we have the same regions: ABCD, ABC and BCD. Of course, what I called a square above could be drawn as any arbitrary quadrilateral without changing anything.
Interestingly, the above suggests to me an excellent justification for relation-valued attributes as candidate keys for an edge relation and a region relation except that it would not necessarily work for the dual due to the multiplicity of edges between nodes. Hmmmm.
But then again, the logical identity for what we draw as an edge in a dual is really two regions and an edge, and one could make all three attributes relation-valued attributes.
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Greetings ... I'm 62 mad am ready to get back in the saddle after a good 18 year rest. My wife and I bought some nice Trek hybrid/commuter bikes a couple if years ago and promptly turned them into garage art. While they are impressive hanging on the garage wall, they are not helping me reach my goal of getting my doctor off my back.
At my last physical, my doctor said that I am in good health but I am fat. Yep, she said the "f" word. I am not going to take up running and I enjoyed biking back in the day so I'm going back to riding. I'm happy to have found this forum and hope to use the info and stories here to keep me motivated.
I'll be taking my first tide in about 10 hours. Wish me luck! Good to be here.


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California decriminalizes pot
California decriminalizes pot
Oct 2 2010, 03:01 AM
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Warlord of the Wastes.
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You could not possibly convince me. Everything I've ever read that supports the argument you're attempting to make has been disproved in a later study, not to mention that I guarantee I've spent more time hanging around long-time (read: decades) marijuana users than you've even seen in your lifetime.
Massacre, you make me look like a rational, moral, kind person.
Massacre - What you've just posted is sick and disturbing...
When Massacre is around, everything is violated... Whether it likes it or not.
Whenever I think of "human resources" Massacre immediately springs to mind.
Oct 9 2010, 02:44 AM
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Xfire Identity: XFire it up
I guarantee I've spent more time hanging around long-time (read: decades) marijuana users than you've even seen in your lifetime.
I've been smoking weed since I was 14, and am a successful engineer in television broadcasting.
About the career: Of course, I don't bring work home with me, and I am not all about work, it just happened in college.
I was a stoner art and music major. Some famous chica whispered in my ear about a TV Studio and animation....
Along the way I have met other engineers, executives, many women (oh yes) and of course many
successful television editors, artists, directors, accountants, that smoke weed every day of their lives.
This is bedsides the many thugs, gang bangers, bro's and homies I hung out with growing up in California.
Musicians - goes without saying. We all smoked weed, and many still do. It has never been a big deal.
Unless you wanted to work for the man in the government, then you had to piss in a cup.
(By the way, my dad's apprentice finally retired early- FULL pension. Government job, no smoking weed paid off)
L0L this shit doesn't hurt anyone. In fact it helped our lives. I couldn't imagine going through
brain-busting physics, calculus, and other science classes without it. Not to mention how it helped
me in my real interest, art and music. Dude. It's like that. I'm honored to pass Massacre my blunt.
...and in this fucking recession, any of us who are lucky enough to be employed, in this fucked up economy,
will always gladly help out a brother in need, if we are the ones who succeed.
Because as the old saying goes, a friend with weed, is a friend indeed.
Best of luck to my old familia y amigos en California. You'll still get a ticket, but it's not jail anymore ese vato!
The most ridiculous crime, is hearing of familia in prison because of something as innocent as mota.
Apparently, Synch does acid rather than smoking weed...
synch is a fucking walking fallout 3 wikipedia lol...
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Norse/Germanic mythology as the ancient northern Europeans understood it…
We're all familiar with the pop culture depictions of Norse mythology that are shallow and trite at best, and often downright misleading. They owe far more to puerile fantasies of being a macho superhero than they do to the ways in which the pre-Christian peoples of northern Europe actually thought of themselves and their spirituality.
Even many of the attempts to revive the practice of heathen spirituality in the modern world suffer from similar shortcomings; many of these attempted reconstructions have unfortunately only reconstructed the most superficial elements of this ancient tradition, grafted them onto an essentially Christian way of perceiving and experiencing the world, and missed the bigger picture.
The Love of Destiny: The Sacred and the Profane in Germanic Polytheism explores this bigger picture. In this relatively short book or long essay by Dan McCoy, the author of the articles on Norse-Mythology.org, many of the recurring themes in these articles are explored in much more depth. The book articulates the heart of the indigenous Germanic worldview – the unconditional affirmation of the world as the very embodiment of the gods – and shows how the rest of that worldview is structured around that central idea.
To do this, it "translates" the narratives and images that comprise the pre-Christian mythology of the Norse and other Germanic peoples into the more familiar idiom of conceptual language, and contrasts this polytheistic mythology with the mythology of four monotheistic religions: ancient Judaism, Greek rationalism, Christianity, and modern science. It argues that many of the most taken-for-granted ideas in the modern world, such as the dichotomy between "good" and "evil" and the dichotomy between the "objective" and the "subjective," frame their topics in counterproductive, monotheistic ways, and shows how Germanic polytheism offers compelling alternatives that are truly "outside the box." Ultimately, it evokes a way of engaging with the more-than-human world that honors our inescapable and awe-inspiring entanglement within it.
See below for the Table of Contents and a sample section.
When you purchase a copy of this book, you help keep this site up and running, and I sincerely hope you feel that you've gotten your money's worth and then some. This book was the result of several years of research, experience, contemplation, and writing. I wrote and scrapped three different versions of it before finally arriving at a version that I felt satisfied with enough to offer publicly. Hopefully that effort is apparent in the quality of the text itself.
Where and How to Get It
Right now, there are three different ways to get your hands on The Love of Destiny in three different formats.
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On Amazon.com, its price is $5.99 (USD), and its page is here.
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Tables of Contents
I. Prologue
– Polytheism and Monotheism
II. The Origins and Worldview of Monotheism
– The Hebrews
– The Greeks
– The Christians
– The Scientists
III. The Sacred and the Profane
– Spirit and Flesh
– Myth
– Reason
– Perspectivism
IV. Destiny
– The Turning of Being
– The Eternal Circle
Glossary of Old Norse Words
Sample Section
This is the section "Spirit and Flesh" from Chapter Three, "The Sacred and the Profane:"
From a polytheistic perspective, the visible world is not a negation of the invisible world of spirit, but its fulfillment. The words that William Blake chose to end The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "Everything that lives is holy," apply to all that we perceive and experience, no matter how grand and luminous, no matter how vile and distressing.
In his unfinished masterpiece, The Visible and the Invisible, the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote: "[Ideas] could not be given to us as ideas except in a carnal experience. It is not only that we would find in that carnal experience the occasion to think them; it is that they owe their authority, their fascinating, indestructible power, precisely to the fact that they are in transparency behind the sensible, or in its heart… [The idea] is the invisible of this world, that which inhabits this world, sustains it, and renders it visible." The intuition and imagination, far from being "subjective" and therefore of little to no consequence where the real is concerned, have an openness upon the real that equals that of the senses. The mythical beings, realms, and events that they perceive are not false or nonexistent simply because they elude the senses, but rather dwell within an ordinarily latent – and yet ultimately deeper – modality of the world. Nor should the senses be shunned, for that which they divulge is fastened to that which is divulged by the invisible components of perception. Perception's visible and invisible parts cannot be isolated from one another; both are integrated into a seamless whole. Such, at least, is how we are surely to understand the Roman historian Tacitus's description of the religion of the Germanic tribes: "Their holy places are the woods and groves, and they apply the names of gods to those hidden presences seen only by the eye of reverence."
Despite its origins in the Latin word mater, "mother," our modern word "matter" has been invested with connotations of inertness, insensitivity, barrenness. To call it "dead" would be to impart to it too much life – it was never living in the first place. Against this Cartesian tendency, Merleau-Ponty described the visible world as flesh, within which all of us visible beings are intertwining sinews.
There is a particular resonance with Germanic mythology in his choice of words. Before the world as we today know it had emerged, there was only the primordial chaos of Ginnungagap ("Great Abyss"). Ymir ("Scream"), the animating spirit of this void of undisturbed silence and darkness, was slain by Óðinn and his brothers Vili ("Will") and Vé ("Consecration"), who then crafted the visible world from his flesh. As it is recounted in the Eddic poem Grímnismál:
Ór Ymis holdi
Var jǫrð of skǫpuð,
En ór sveita sær,
Bjǫrg ór beinum,
Baðmr ór hári,
En ór hausi himinn.
En ór hans brám
Gerðu blíð regin
Miðgarð manna sonum,
En ór hans heila
Váru þau in harðmóðgu
Ský ǫll of skǫpuð.
[From Ymir's hide
Was earth created,
Seas from sweat,
Peaks from bones,
Trees from hair,
And from his skull the sky.
And from his brows
Made these blithe powers
Shelters for the sons of men,
And from his brains
The dark and baleful
Clouds were all then strung.]
Ymir's tribe, the Jǫtnar or "devourers," are adept at shapeshifting, as are the gods and goddesses themselves. One never knows when a falcon might be an incarnation of Frigg, a wolf an incarnation of Óðinn, or an eagle an incarnation of Þjazi. Þórr's name means "Thunder," and Týr's comes from an Indo-European root that meant both "god" and "the blue sky." The elements are permeated with divinity to the point that they are truly the flesh of the gods. And when the various profane and partial manifestations of the gods in the fleshly world are perceived with the "eye of reverence," the profane reveals itself to be a vessel of the sacred, and, to quote Blake once more, you
See a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.


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What is Motion Blur ?
Motion blur is an effect you will see in photographs of scenes where objects are moving. It is mostly noticeable when the exposure is long, or if objects in the scene are moving rapidly.
Why does it happen ?
Why should you bother ?
You will see motion blur to some extent in almost every film and TV program. It is likely, however, that you will not notice it. Like many artifacts of photography, you only usually notice it's absence, and it's presence gives an air of realism.
For example, you may have seen that lens flare has become a popular effect recently. Traditional photographers often try to reduce it's effect, but since we recognize it as an artifact of reality, computer graphicians make the effort to simulate it. The same goes for the grain on film, the wobble of a camera being held in the hand or mounted on a helicopter, focus effects, and many others.
Take a look at some computer animations that do not contain rendered motion blur, and you will see that fast movement looks jerky and unrealistic. You might also notice this effect in TV coverage of sporting events. Whereas most TV programs are filmed with cameras that take about 25 frames per second, sporting cameras can take up to 1000 frames per second, giving excellent sharp slow motion replays. However they broadcast only a small fraction of these frames, which reduces the amount of motion blur, and so fast moving objects seem to flicker.
We are all so used to seeing motion blur in TV programs and films, that to see motion without it looks a little unrealistic. The lack of motion blur is one of the (many) reasons that computer generated animation can look unreal. This lack of realism is caused by the sharpness of motion in computer animations is quite noticeable, and can really spoil the effect.
Additionally, an image with motion blur holds more information that one without. Compare these two images:
In more detail ?
We will consider how a movie camera takes pictures of a moving scene.
A movie camera consists of the following parts:
The image on the right shows a stationary red sphere being filmed by a movie camera.
Just the three important parts of the camera, the Lens, Shutter and Film are shown.
You can see that the shutter is open, letting light onto the film. If you look at the film, you will see the two previous frames that have been exposed, and the current frame being exposed. That frame is slightly darker than the other two, as the shutter has only been open for a short time (a small fraction of a second). In another fraction of a second, the shutter will close again, leaving that frame fully exposed, and as bright as the other two.
After the shutter closes, the film will move down a bit to ready the next frame for exposure. The shutter will then open again, and the process repeats many times a second.
This image shown the same thing happening again. This time however, the sphere is moving quickly in the direction
of the arrow.
The shutter opens, and the image begins to form on the film. However, while the shutter is open, the sphere is moving. This movement causes the image on the film to be blurred. This is known as motion blur.
Now, I'd be willing to bet that if you looked at any one of those motion-blurred frames, you would be able to guess that the sphere was moving horizontally when it was filmed. A frame with motion blur carries more information than a frame without.
Creating the effect of Motion Blur in an Image
1: Spatial anti-aliasing
You may well be familiar with one method of anti-aliasing, known as super sampling. This method involves rendering an image much larger than you want it, then reducing the size by averaging groups of pixels into one. I will take you through the method of creating anti-aliased images first, because creating motion blur is very similar.
For example, to render an anti-aliased image of a red circle, at a resolution of 50x50:
1: Render too many pixels
You would first draw an un-anti-aliased circle at a higher resolution. In this case, I have chosen a resolution of 200x200, which is four times too big in each dimension.
2: Divide the image
Then, imagine dividing the image into little squares. Since this high resolution image is 4 times too big, we choose each little square to be 4x4 pixels in size.
3: Average
Now, for each little square, take the average values of all the pixels inside it. Fill the little square with that average value.
4: Resize
Finally, resize the image down to 50x50. And there you have it. One anti-aliased red circle.
2: Temporal anti-aliasing (Motion Blur)
Now, a similar thing can be done to achieve motion blur. The method for creating smooth images is known as Spatial Anti-aliasing (means smoothing out space), and the method for creating smooth motion in animations is known as Temporal Anti-aliasing (means smoothing out time).
It is analogous to the method used to anti-alias images.
1: Render too many frames
For example, on the left, you can see that frames have been rendered 1/100th of a second apart.
2: Divide the frames
3: Average
4: Done
What does this mean to the programmer?
So, should you try to model motion blur in your programs? Well, that depends a great deal on what kind of program it is.
Motion blur can be very hard to model in real-time applications. It requires that you increase the frame-rate several times. And for real-time applications, the only way to do this is to render with much less detail. For most programmers, this is unacceptable.
Correct Motion Blur
|Some computer games try to simulate motion blur by blending the current frame with the previous frames, so that previous frames are still visible for a moment. This makes moving objects smear across the screen. This is not real motion blur; it does not look good and is a waste of processor power.
False Motion Blur
If you are rendering a non-real-time animation, then it is well worth going to the extra trouble to add motion blur, especially if the motion is fast. It is not always desirable however. For example, if you want to be able to pause the animation, and see the images sharply, then you may want to reduce, or ignore, the blur altogether. If you have the film Out of Sight with George Clooney, watch the beginning, where George comes out of the bank, and chucks his tie on the floor. As the camera pans around, you might notice that it looks a little bit jerky or flickery. The film pauses occasionally to catch a car speeding past, and George in the act of throwing his tie down. Even though they were moving quite quickly, they still don't seem to have suffered a great deal from motion blur. This is because the film makers used a high speed film, and reduced the exposure time a great deal, so that the paused shots appeared sharp.
Motion Blur Demo
Here's a real-time demo showing a cube rushing round the screen. You can use the following keys:
up/down arrows:
left/right arrows:
Toggle slow motion
Toggle between correct and false motion blur
Toggle Red/Blue 3D mode
more/less motion blur accuracy
adjust background brightness
Real-time Motion Blur Demo
Motion Blur Animation
The frames of this animation were rendered in
Terragen. Spatial and Temporal anti-aliasing were
then applied with Bitty, and finally the
animation was created with Bink. You will need
the bink player, which you can download for free from their web site.
fly2.zip (1.3Mb) : 160 frames : Bink Format
Bitty http://parnham.future.easyspace.com/
Bitty is a little program, that can perform Spatial and Temporal anti-aliasing (motion blur). You can give it the frames from a rendered animation, and it will mix them together to create the effect of motion blur. It can also resample the frames down as it goes. It does not create animation files, but outputs another set of frames that must then be compiled into a .MPG, .AVI or .BIK (bink!) video file.
Terragen Motion Blurred Animations http://parnham.future.easyspace.com/animations.htm
Dan has made some great animations using Terragen to render the frames, and Bitty to mix them. There are and excellent demonstration of motion blur.
Bink! http://www.smacker.com
Bink is an amazing new video compression codec, easily outperforming MPEG-II and AVI. It is a very new system and is not yet as well supported as .MPG or .AVI. However I do hope it will gain the recognition it deserves. I shall be creating all my animations in this format from now on.
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Does anyone know where I could get a bigger image of this to use as my desktop wallpaper? Last year's poster was on the Download New Football Poster As Computer Wallpapers - Iowa State University Athletics Official Web Site - www.CYCLONES.com - The home of Iowa State Cyclone Sports , this year's poster nada!?
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I have the poster, I could take a high-res image of it. Have to wait a month though because I'm on the road.
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I have the poster, I could take a high-res image of it. Have to wait a month though because I'm on the road.
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FEMA says it expects to reach office funding deal soonFebruary 11,2013MONTPELIER The Federal Emergency Management Agency says federal and state officials hope to complete funding arrangements for the rebuilding of the Waterbury state office complex by the end of the month.
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Anyone else watching VIP on Channel Four on Friday nights? I generally like it (some of it's a bit shite, some I "don't get"). But I absolutely LOVE Morgana Robinson as Natalie Cassidy and Adele.
I really liked The Morgana Show last year, particularly Gilbert and Cheryl Cole & Dannii.
Sorry- can't embed. Adele's pub order below.
And from last year (her solo show):
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14 May 2012 @ 19:25
FFS I origingally forgot to add a title! QID can you make it so that a new thread can't be made unless there's a title?
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13 May 2012 @ 16:58
Watched a few episodes of it and it's really enjoyable. A few sketches are abit hit and miss, but in general, it's a good show.
Morgana Robinson has the impressions down to a tee. My favourite one is the Amy Child's "Very Important News"
I've overheard your theory
"Nostalgia's for geeks"
13 May 2012 @ 17:29
The Natalie Cassidy impressions are fabulous. Agree with Kerrang, a bit hit and miss, but not a bad first attempt.
13 May 2012 @ 20:36
The Amy Childs skit is brilliant.
It's bang on, the face movements, the lip biting, everything.
So impressed with it.
The guy who does the sketches is a hottie in real life too!
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13 May 2012 @ 21:29
Who can forget Terry Wagwan! It makes almost no sense but it's hilarious at the same time.
Don't just stand there, let's get to it. Download my mixes from anto.ie Twitter: twitter.com/afinucane
13 May 2012 @ 21:42
more miss than hit imho
"..we had to go in deep, and we did go in deep..." – Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan - September 30, 2010
13 May 2012 @ 21:55
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more miss than hit imho
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I agree, but the Natalie Cassidy bit is totally inspired.
14 May 2012 @ 18:19
I WANT to like it more than I do TBH- but as I've said I just fecking love the Natalie Cassidy bit! I could watch that alone all night, with a few bit of Adele thrown in. Amy Childs is great but I had to goole who she was TBH before I "got" it.
14 May 2012 @ 19:14
The Natalie Cassidy is the best sketch by far. Morgana Robinson was on Chatty Man the other week and she mentioned that Natalie tweeted her saying she loves the impression of her.
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text: Department of Nuclear Engineering http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7852 2016-03-23T12:01:11Z Optimization of deep boreholes for disposal of high-level nuclear waste http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97968 Optimization of deep boreholes for disposal of high-level nuclear waste Bates, Ethan Allen This work advances the concept of deep borehole disposal (DBD), where spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is isolated at depths of several km in basement rock. Improvements to the engineered components of the DBD concept (e.g., plug, canister, and fill materials) are presented. Reference site parameters and models for radionuclide transport, dose, and cost are developed and coupled to optimize DBD design. A conservative and analytical representation of thermal expansion flow gives vertical velocities of fluids vs. time (and the results are compared against numerical models). When fluid breakthrough occurs rapidly, the chemical transport model is necessary to calculate radionuclide concentrations along the flow path to the surface. The model derived here incorporates conservative assumptions, including instantaneous dissolution of the SNF, high solubility, low sorption, no aquifer or isotopic dilution, and a host rock matrix that is saturated (at a steady state profile) for each radionuclide. For radionuclides that do not decay rapidly, sorb, or reach solubility limitations (e.g., 1-129), molecular diffusion in the host rock (transverse to the flow path) is the primary loss mechanism. The first design basis failure mode (DB 1) assumes the primary flow path is a 1.2 m diameter region with 100x higher permeability than the surrounding rock, while DB2 assumes a 0.1 mm diameter fracture. For the limiting design basis (DB 1), borehole repository design is constrained (via dose limits) by the areal loading of SNF (MTHM/km2 ), which increases linearly with disposal depth. In the final portion of the thesis, total costs (including drilling, site characterization, and emplacement) are minimized ($/kgHM) while borehole depth, disposal zone length, and borehole spacing are varied subject to the performance (maximum dose) constraint. Accounting for a large uncertainty in costs, the optimal design generally lies at the minimum specified disposal depth (assumed to be 1200 in), with disposal zone length of 800-1500 m and borehole spacing of 250-360 meters. Optimized costs range between $45 to $191/kgHM, largely depending on the assumed emplacement method and drilling cost. The best estimate (currently achievable), minimum cost is $134/kgHM, which corresponds to a disposal zone length of -900 meters and borehole spacing of 272 meters. Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240). 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Investigating the educational effectiveness of a science museum exhibit on small modular fusion reactors http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97967 Investigating the educational effectiveness of a science museum exhibit on small modular fusion reactors Batie, Margo Alexandra Most people are unaware of the tremendous potential fusion reactors and smaller, more modular reactors possess. To inform them, a science exhibit was.constructed to investigate whether or not it would more effectively teach the audience which in this case are passersby on the first floor of MIT's building 24, about small modular reactors (SMRs) compared to an executive summary written to explain the same technology. Through the employment of hand written surveys, visitor feedback from the executive summary was compared to visitor feedback on the exhibit. The data indicated that although the exhibit lacked the technical detail of the executive summary, it provided a larger proportion of visitors with sufficient background information and a greater appreciation and understanding of fusion energy and reactor modularity. Future SMR exhibits should employ more elements that encourage visitor interaction, such as a demonstration of plasma behavior, as well more information on the cost and feasibility of the technology. Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2014.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-151). 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Investigation of sub-meter shields for a low aspect ratio D-T Tokamak fusion reactor http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97966 Investigation of sub-meter shields for a low aspect ratio D-T Tokamak fusion reactor French, Cameron T A significant effort is being made by fusion researchers to minimize the total size of magnetic fusion devices on the path toward developing fusion energy. The spherical tokamak, which has a very low aspect ratio, is the most promising of the compact magnetic fusion reactor designs. This compactness imposes a severe material constraint on the design, as a highly compact device will have very thin inner shielding. This inner shielding, which in traditional designs is required to be around 1 meter thick, acts to protect the central solenoid and return toroidal field coil legs from material damage and nuclear heating resulting from high neutron fluxes. The use of a sub-meter inner shield creates potential for the design of a proof of principle magnetic fusion device, sacrificing the central component materials for a demonstration of temporary fusion power production. The nuclear heating of thin shields (~ 0.1 - 0.2m) of various compositions was explored using the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) transport code. The principal finding was that nuclear heating is the largest concern to the central inboard components. Nuclear heating of these sensitive materials was found to be minimized by the use of a magnesium borohydride blanket with a tungsten first wall. The resulting nuclear heating density for a 100MW, R=1m D-T tokamak employing 0.1 - 0.2m shields is shown to have the potential to threaten the ability of such a device to sustain net electricity. Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2014.; "June 2014." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (page 22). 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z COMSOL finite-element analysis : residual stress measurement of representative 304L/308L weld in spent fuel storage containers http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97965 COMSOL finite-element analysis : residual stress measurement of representative 304L/308L weld in spent fuel storage containers Solis, Dominic (Dominic R.) The ultimate storage destination for spent nuclear fuel in the United States is currently undecided. Spent fuel will be stored indefinitely in dry cask storage systems typically located on-site at the reactor or at a dedicated independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). Since these canisters were not originally designed or qualified for indefinite storage, there is a need to quantify the length of time they will be viable for storing spent fuel. Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) is a concern in these canisters if they are exposed to an aqueous, chloride-containing film. Canisters are fabricated using a concrete overpacking, along with austenitic stainless steel on the inside which is welded together. One factor that would significantly impact SCC behavior inside these canister welds, if the proper conditions developed such that SCC occurred, is the tensile residual stress profile. As the highest residual stresses are present in the welds and their heat-affected zones (HAZ), it would be useful to investigate their influence by predicting the residual stress profile in the container. These data will support further research into the life expectancy of these canisters and the possible ways in which they might fail due to SCC. Residual stress data for nuclear waste canisters are scarce. Without experimental measurements, initial insight must be attained through computational analysis using finite-element analysis (FEA) packages such as COMSOL. Using a representative 304L/308L weld plate as a model in COMSOL, predicted residual stress shows some agreement with expected trends: high tensile stresses in the weld/ HAZ regions and compressive stresses in the surrounding material. Hardness tests show trends similar to the hardening profiles that were created after the weld simulation. Additionally, the thermal model may offer insight in predicting the HAZ profiles in the weld. While the 2D model is simplified and would benefit from further refinement and validation, preliminary results suggest that FEA could be used for residual stress measurement predictions. Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2014.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-31). 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z


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HUNTERSVILLE – The new Montessori School at Long Creek is looking for a name.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is soliciting input from the public to help decide on a name for the school, which opens in 2014-15.
CMS invites the public to a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. March 31 at the North Learning Community Conference Room, 9425 Midas Springs Road.
A poll opens April 1 to narrow down options. Residents can also email ideas to email@example.com.
Details: 980-343-9442.
'Celebration of life' held for youth firefighter
HUNTERWSVILLE – Huntersville's fire department had one member who was much younger than the rest of the staff.
Carter Dang, the 3-year-old son of Hao and Anne Dang, had a passion for large trucks and machines. Dang, in the midst of a battle with stage 4 neuroblastoma, was named an honorary HFD firefighter in honor of his efforts to fight the illness.
HFD "responded" to a call to Dang – nicknamed "Super Carter" – on Feb. 8 by surrounding the boy with 19 fire trucks, ambulances and police cars, giving him inside access to each rescue vehicle.
"Carter's bravery, heroic fight and constant smile won us all over, and from that day forward we have adopted the Carter family as part of the fire department family," HFD spokesman Bill Suthard said.
A celebration of Dang's life will be held at 10 a.m. March 29 at James Funeral Home, 10520 Arahova Drive.
Workshop focuses on U.S. 21 intersection
HUNTERSVILLE – The town will hold a public workshop regarding improvements to the U.S. 21/Gilead Road intersection 4:30-7:30 p.m. April 10 at Huntersville Town Hall, 101 Huntersville-Concord Road.
Town staff will be on hand to discuss the options for the intersection and the process it will undergo to move forward with improvements.
Details: www.us21gileadroadproject.org.
Suspect convicted of sex offense with girl
CORNELIUS – Michael Brian Wise was convicted of one count of statutory rape and two counts of statutory sex offense March 20 from an incident that occurred in Cornelius in August 2012, according to the police department.
Wise, a 44-year-old Rock Hill, S.C. native, will serve at least 48 years in prison.
Wise drove from his home in Rock Hill on Aug. 10, 2012, to a park in Cornelius to visit a 14-year-old girl whom he met through Facebook, officials said. Wise drove the girl to a nearby parking lot, where he engaged her in sexual acts, and then drove the girl back to the park, where a CPD officer spotted the van, officials said.
Report: Hough hires coach
CORNELIUS – Hough High has hired former South Carolina defensive coordinator Miles Aldridge as its new head football coach, according to a March 26 report by The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C.
Aldridge had been the head coach at Columbia Spring Valley High, where he went 28-19 in four seasons. The State reported that Aldridge has a house in Huntersville. Aldridge was also an assistant coach in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills from 2001 to 2003.
He replaces Bobby Collins, who went 25-20 in four years as the Huskies' coach. Collins resigned Feb. 21 to become coach at Lancaster (S.C.) High.
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Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown Will Roll Out Second Season in September
North Korea did not make the cut.
We're not even through the midpoint of the first season of Anthony Bourdain's new CNN show, Parts Unknown, but we've got some great news about season two anyhow. The first of eight new episodes will debut on September 15, and for his second round of globe-trotting, Tony will make stops in Spain, Detroit, New Mexico, Israel, Copenhagen, Sicily, India, and Tokyo. (No North Korea this time around.) The TV host and all-around children's education booster will visit Quebec on this Sunday's episode. [Earlier, Related]


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Re: Mnemonics
- From: rossum <rossum48@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:26:30 +0100
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:15:23 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen
<mok-kong.shen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,3 -> 3333rd prime + 333
Mnemonics could sometimes help memorize or locate longer text
sequences. If a mnemomic is very short, does this imply that the
corresponding text sequence is 'effectively' very short as well
in the sense of information content ("entropy")? As a contrived
example, if I use the digit 3 to remember the sum of the 33333333-th
prime number plus 33, wouldn't the longer number obtained be defacto
'equivalent' to the single digit '3' in that sense?
3 -> 3333333rd prime + 3
3 -> 33 digits of pi following digit 33333333
IMHO your mnemonic requires extra information in order to be useful.
A related question is whether one could somehow roughly compare
the diverse types of mnemonics in respect of their 'efficiency'.
I am aware that this question is fairly 'imprecise' and the
answer would likely be of corresponding precision but I suppose
even some very very rough ordinal scale of comparision, if available,
could nonetheless be of practial values.
M. K. Shen
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TiVo Announces Quarterly Loss of $15.3 Million
Television services company TiVo Inc (TIVO) reported a net loss of $15.3 million for the second quarter, compared with a loss of $2.7 million a year earlier. Net loss per share was 13 cents. Net revenue slipped to $51.6 million, from $57.6 million a year earlier, the company said in a statement.


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Official stock firmwares are those that are leaked from Samsung and are made available for download for the users. You can install these official firmwares on your device –without voiding your device's warranty– by two ways. One way is to use Samsung Kies to Upgrade your firmware to latest version and other is to use Odin Multidownlaoder app to flash downloaded firmwares on your device. The second method is usually preferred since it is very fast and safe to most extend (i.e. if you know what you are doing). So, in this article I will tell you how you can upgrade your device's firmware to official updates from Samsung using Odin.
To flash a firmware on your Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 you need the five things listed below :
- Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 handset : I am sure everyone reading this article has it.
- Samsung USB Drivers : These are needed to connect your device to your PC. Note that if you have installed Samsung Kies on your PC then these drivers are also installed automatically with it, so you don't need them.
- Odin Multidownloader v4.38 : This is used to flash/upgrade firmwares.
- Cooper_v1.OPS file : This file is needed each and every time you flash anything via Odin; let it be custom recovery or a stock rom.
- Latest Official Firmware : This is the firmware that you want to upgrade/flash your device with. You can download a zip file containing (one or many .tar or .tar.md5 files which are flashed on you device) from sammobile.com (for now). Select your country after clicking on the above link and download the stock Rom.
So, once you have got all the requisites then you are ready to begin. So, when everything is set, follow the instructions below to flash the firmware on your device.
1. Make sure you have all required things –Install required drivers, download Odin and Cooper file. Also, do a backup of all the files in internal storage (contacts, apps and all).
2. Download any of the latest firmware for your device from sammobile.com or (from this page which I will create later).
3. Now, extract your download and examine it.
4. If you have got a single .tar or .tar.md5 file then configure as said in Step A. Otherwise, if you have got two or more (usually four) .tar or .tar.md5 files then configure Odin as said in Step B.
- Step A : Configuring Odin For One Package file.
|Configuring Odin with one package file.
- Run Odin Multidownloader for Galaxy Ace GT-S5830.
- Check One Package, Auto reboot and Protect OPS check boxes.
- Click on OPS button and Load Cooper_v1.0.ops file on it.
- Now go to the bottom and click on One Package button.
- Load the single *.tar or .tar.md5 file in this field.
|Selecting multiple files in Odin.
Step B : Configuring Odin for Flashing with Multiple Files
- Run Odin Multidownloader for Galaxy Ace GT-S5830.
- Check Auto reboot and Protect OPS check boxes. [ Note : Do not check one package option, use this option only when you need to flash a complete rom in one package.]
- Click on OPS button and Load Cooper_v1.0.ops file on it.
- Click on BOOT button and Select .tar (or .tar.md5) file with APBOOT in the name.
- Click on PDA button and Select .tar (or .tar.md5) file with CODE / PDA in the name.
- Click on PHONE button and Select .tar (or .tar.md5) file with MODEM in the name.
- Click on CSC button and Select .tar (or .tar.md5) file with csc / csc-multi in the name.
- Leave EFS blank.
5. Now, once odin is configured, power off your galaxy ace.
6. Boot up your device in download mode (Press Volume Down + Home + Power button simultaneously).
7. Only when your phone is in download mode, then connect it to your PC via USB Cable.
8. Once connected in download mode, Odin will say Detected! (see the image below) and then you may press Start button.
|Do not proceed ahead until Odin recognize/ detects your device.
9. Wait for about 5-6 minutes for Odin to flash the firmware and then when it says PASS at the top left box, you may disconnect your device.
|Wait till Odin says PASS. This is the notification that your device is successfully upgraded.
That's all. You have successfully upgraded your device to latest firmware available. Please, note that you may need to do a data wipe and cache wipe after flashing the firmware for a clean install. Also, if your device is stuck in Samsung logo for a long time, then go to recovery (Press Home + Power button) and do a factory reset/wipe data and wipe cache and reboot your device. It will boot fine after that.
Now, take some time to explorer you new firmware as well as restore your apps and data from any backup you did earlier. Enjoy the latest Android OS on your device. Don't hesitate to ask for help if you are stuck at any of the steps above.


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Birmingham, AL (Sports Network) - Clide Geffrard Jr. scored a game-high 17
points as the Samford Bulldogs captured a 40-33 win over the Wofford Terriers
in a Southern Conference tilt at the Pete Hanna Center.
Raijon Kelly finished with eight points, five assists and four steals for the
Bulldogs (9-17, 7-6 SoCon) but he shot just 3-of-11 from the floor as the team
won for the second time in the last three outings.
The lone double-digit scorer for the Terriers (10-17, 4-10) was Lee Skinner
who tallied 10 points and also paced the visitors with seven rebounds as they
bowed for the second time in as many games.
Neither side shot the ball well on the night, with Wofford hitting just 6-
of-23 from the floor in the first half, including 1-of-9 beyond the arc, en
route to a 17-16 deficit at the break. The Bulldogs were only slightly better
from the field (7-of-22).
Samford opened the second half on a 6-0 run, eventually leading by as many as
10 points with just under six minutes remaining, in order to grab the tough
Both squad finished with more turnovers than field goals on the night.
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Women's Golf Takes Third at Titan Tri-Match
March 9, 2014
Titan Tri-Match Results
TITUSVILLE, Fla. - The UIC women's golf team started the 2014 spring season with a third place finish at Detroit's Titan Tri-Match on Sunday (March 9). The Flames finished the round with 18 pars and a team score of 363.
"I am very pleased with our performance today in the areas that we have been working on this off season," said UIC head coach Carol Rhoades. "After six months of snow and cold, our first day on the course was very encouraging in many areas. We are a bit rusty in our short games while adjusting to the environmental conditions. I expect our scores to drop dramatically over the next three days."
Junior Ryann Gilley led the Flames with a round of 83, which tied for eighth place. She was +2 on the Par 3s, which was the fifth best performance of the day. Gilley led UIC with eight pars.
"Ryann continued to lead the Flames in all categories," Rhoades continued. "I am very pleased with her mental fortitude playing with the best players from other schools and maintaining focus on her game."
Sophomore Caitlan Smollen and junior Cherise Mangal both finished tied for 14th with a round of 93. Meanwhile, junior Elizabeth Curtiss placed 16th with a 94. Curtiss was +2 on the Par 5s, which was the lowest score on UIC. Freshman Shannon Menard (103) and junior Kayla Stueland (108) finished 19th and 20th, respectively.
"Elizabeth, Caitlan and Cherise had more positive results today in the preparation phase of competition," said Rhoades. "I was happy to see Kayla return from her elbow injury and start the competitive phase of her recovery. Shannon had many positives in her first competitive round away from Chicago."
UIC stays in Florida for the next three days as the Flames compete in Seminole State's Spring Break Invitational (March 10-12). The event will take place at Timacuan Golf Club located in Lake Mary.
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May 31, 2016
State House Republicans laid out their plan to jump-start the economy Thursday. It includes providing tax credits for businesses and selling off some future tobacco revenue to get a lump sum payment of three billion for investments.
House Speaker Craig DeRoche of Novi says the plan represents a chance to roll out the welcome mat for every industry and every employer.
The plan would give manufacturers a 25 percent credit on the Single Business Tax to offset personal property taxes. Commercial businesses would get a 10 percent credit for the same thing.
Combined, the tax credits would cost the state $221 million in the upcoming fiscal year. The House is expected to take up legislation that reflects the pieces of their plan in the coming weeks.
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BMO Capital Markets celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Houston office this year, and although energy isn't the company's only business, it remains key.
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