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International Journal of Photoenergy
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 472958, 7 pages
Effects of Calcination Temperatures on Photocatalytic Activity of Ordered Titanate Nanoribbon/SnO2 Films Fabricated during an EPD Process
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122#, Wuhan 430070, China
2Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
Received 13 May 2011; Accepted 15 June 2011
Academic Editor: Jiaguo Yu
Copyright © 2012 Li Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Ordered titanate nanoribbon (TNR)/SnO2 films were fabricated by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) process using hydrothermally prepared titanate nanoribbon as a precursor. The formation mechanism of ordered TNR film on the fluorine-doped SnO2 coated (FTO) glass was investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The effects of calcination temperatures on the phase structure and photocatalytic activity of ordered TNR/SnO2 films were investigated and discussed. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) results indicate that the phase transformation of titanate to anatase occurs at 400°C and with increasing calcination temperature, the crystallization of anatase increases. At 600°C, the nanoribbon morphology still hold and the TiO2/SnO2 film exhibits the highest photocatalytic activity due to the good crystallization, unique morphology, and efficient photogenerated charge carriers separation and transfer at the interface of TiO2 and SnO2.
1. Introduction
A large number of investigations have focused on the semiconductor photocatalyst for its applications in solar energy conversion and environmental purification since Fujishima and Honda discovered the photocatalytic splitting of water on the TiO2 electrodes in 1972 [1–9]. Among various oxide semiconductor photocatalysts, titania is a very important photocatalyst for its strong oxidizing power, nontoxicity, and long-term photostability [10–13]. However, TiO2 acting as a photocatalyst has an inherent and significant shortcoming: the fast recombination of the photogenerated charge carriers (hole-electron pairs). Thus, it is of great importance to reduce the recombination of photogenerated charge carriers in TiO2 to enhance its photocatalytic activity for practical and commercial use. Coupling TiO2 with other semiconductors can provide a beneficial solution for this drawback [14–20]. For example, Tada et al. [14, 16, 17] and our previous work [19] conducted a systematic research on the SnO2 as a coupled semiconductor and confirmed that the photogenerated electrons in the TiO2/SnO2 system can accumulate on the SnO2 and photogenerated holes can accumulate on the TiO2 because of the formation of heterojunction at the TiO2/SnO2 interface, which can result in lower recombination rate of photogenerated charge carriers and higher quantum efficiency and thus better photocatalytic activity. Moreover, conventional powder photocatalysts have serious drawbacks such as the need for posttreatment separation in a slurry system and their easy aggregation, resulting in the low photocatalytic activity [14]. Therefore, the development of two-dimensional (2D) film photocatalysts with efficient electron-hole utilization and favorable recycling characteristics is a challenge for practical applications [21].
Various approaches, such as vacuum evaporation, sputtering, chemical vapor deposition, and sol-gel methods, have been contributed to the fabrication of 2D thin film. However, these approaches have some disadvantages for industry applications. Vacuum evaporation, sputtering, and chemical vapor deposition methods require special apparatuses for deposition of films, and sol-gel method needs coating repeatedly in order to get thick films. Recently, a versatile and facile method, electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method, was successfully utilized to fabricate thin film materials [19, 20]. The EPD method exhibits many advantages, such as higher deposition rate, reproducibility, and efficient control over thickness and morphology of the films through tuning the applied current or potential. Moreover, the EPD method can be used to deposit films on different shaped and sized substrates, which can be extended to a large scale and commercial applications.
Our recent work indicates that titanate nanotube films could be obtained by the EPD method [20]. However, there is no report on the preparation of ordered titanate nanoribbon/SnO2 films for photocatalytic application. Herein, we present a facile and effective approach for the preparation of ordered titanate nanoribbons/SnO2 films by the EPD process using hydrothermally prepared titanate nanoribbon as a precursor. The formation mechanism of ordered titanate nanoribbons films during the EPD process was investigated by SEM results. Moreover, the effects of calcination temperatures on the phase structure and photocatalytic activity of ordered TNR/SnO2 were investigated and discussed.
2. Experimental
2.1. Preparation of Titanate Nanoribbon
Titanate nanoribbon was synthesized by a hydrothermal method using commercial TiO2 powder (P25, Degussa, Germany) as a starting material according to our previous reported method [22]. In a typical preparation, 1.5 g P25 was mixed with 140 mL of 10 M NaOH solution followed by hydrothermal treatment of the mixture at 200°C in a 200 mL Teflon-lined autoclave for 48 h. After hydrothermal reaction, the precipitate was separated by filtration and washed with a 0.1 M HCl solution and distilled water until the pH value of the rinsing solution reached ca. 6.5, approaching the pH value of the distilled water. The washed sample was dried in a vacuum oven at 60°C for 8 h.
2.2. Preparation of Ordered TNR/SnO2 Films
The ordered TNR films were deposited on FTO glass (Sheet resistance 14–20 ohm/sq) using an EPD method. The electrolyte solution was obtained by adding 1.5 g titanate nanoribbons powder to 200 mL mixed solution of 60 mL ethanol and 140 mL distilled water and then ultrasonicated for 20 min. The pH value of the electrolyte was adjusted to about 9.0 by addition of tetra-methyl-ammonium hydroxide for controlling the surface charge of TNR. The isoelectric point of TNR was reported to be about 5.5 [23, 24]. Therefore, TNR in the pH 9 electrolyte solution had a negatively surface charge density and would be attracted to positive electrode. During the EPD, the cleaned FTO glass was kept at a positive potential while pure silver foil was used as the counter electrode. The linear distance between the two electrodes was about 4 cm. The applied voltage was 15 V. The coated substrates were rinsed with distilled water, dried in air, and calcined at 300, 400, 500, and 600°C in air for 2 h, respectively.
2.3. Characterization
X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns were obtained on a D/MAX-RB X-ray diffractometer (Rigaku, Japan) using Cu Ka irradiation at a scan rate of 0.05° 2θ s−1 and were used to determine the identity of any phase present. The accelerating voltage and the applied current were 15 kV and 20 mA, respectively. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) analyses were conducted with an H-600 STEM/EDX PV9100 microscope, using 200 kV accelerating voltage. Morphology observation was performed on a JSM-6700F field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM, JEOL, Japan).
2.4. Measurement of Photocatalytic Activity
Rhodamine B (RhB), one of the N-containing dyes, which are resistant to biodegradation and direct photolysis, is a popular probe molecule in the heterogeneous photocatalysis reaction. It is often used as a tracer dye within water to determine the rate and direction of flow and transport. Rhodamine dyes fluoresce and can thus be detected easily and inexpensively with instruments called fluorometers. Rhodamine dyes are used extensively in biotechnology applications such as fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry,and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. In USA, RhB is suspected to be carcinogenic, and thus products containing it must contain a warning on its label. Therefore, we chose it as a model pollutant compound to evaluate the photocatalytic activity of the as-prepared calcined TNR/SnO2 films [25]. Photocatalytic activity of the calcined TNR/SnO2 films was evaluated and compared by the photocatalytic decolorization of RhB aqueous solution at ambient temperature, as reported in the previous studies [25, 26]. The calcined TNR/SnO2 films were settled in a 20 mL RhB aqueous solution with a concentration of 1.0 × 10−5 mol L−1 in a dish with a diameter of 9.0 cm. A 15 W 365 nm UV lamp (Cole-Parmer Instrument Co.) was used as a light source. The absorbance of RhB at 554 nm was measured by a UV-Vis spectrophotometer (UV2550, Shimadzu, Japan). According to the Lambert-Beer Law [27, 28], the absorbance () of RhB is proportional to its concentration (), which generally followed the following equation: where is the molar absorption coefficient and is the thickness of the absorption cell. In our experiment, all the testing parameters were kept constant, so the and can be considered as a constant. Therefore, the changes of the concentration () of RhB aqueous solution can be determined by a UV-Vis spectrophotometer. As for the RhB aqueous solution with low concentration, its photocatalytic decolorization is a pseudo-first-order reaction and its kinetics may be expressed as follows [29]: where is the apparent rate constant and and are the initial and reaction absorbance of RhB aqueous solution, respectively.
3. Results And Discussion
3.1. Morphology and Phase Structure of the As-Prepared TNR
Figure 1(a) shows the SEM image of well-dispersed TNR with a length range from several micrometers to several tens of micrometers and a width of 30–300 nm. As shown in Figure 1(b), a typical image of belt-like structure was obtained, indicating a high aspect ratio (the width to the thickness) of 3–15 for the as-prepared TNR, similar to the previous reported work [30]. Moreover, the XRD pattern of as-prepared TNR (Figure 1(d)) exhibited a feature similar to that of alkali or hydrogen titanates such as H2Ti3O7 [31], NaxH2−xTi3O7 [32], or NayH2−yTinO2n+1·xH2O [33] due to a similar structure of layered titanate family. TEM and HRTEM were further used to observe the morphology and microstructures of the as-prepared TNR. Figures 1(b) and 1(c) exhibit the TEM and HRTEM images of TNR, respectively. As shown in Figures 1(b) and 1(c), an obvious layered structure in the titanate nanoribbon could be observed, and the layer spacing was about 0.8 nm, corresponding to the diffraction peak located at ca. 11° in Figure 1(b). Moreover, the selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern (inset in Figure 1(b)) also reveals that the titanate nanoribbon is single crystalline in structure according to the features of the diffraction pattern.
3.2. Formation Mechanism of the Ordered TNR Film Deposited on FTO Glass
The formation mechanism of ordered TNR film is investigated by SEM. As shown in Figure 2(a), before deposition (0 min), FTO glass exhibits relatively rough surfaces, and the SnO2 grains with size of 50–150 nm can be clearly observed. The clear grain boundary indicates that SnO2 is well crystallized. After deposition for 1 min, a large amount of TNRs are randomly deposited on FTO glass (Figure 2(b)). As the deposition time increases, more TNRs are further deposited on the surface of substrate. Interestingly, as the deposition time increased to 3 min, ordered TNR film is obtained (Figure 2(c)). However, why the early formed TNR film appears disorder structure or morphology? This is ascribed to the fact that FTO film contains different sized grains, and thus its surface is not smooth. After deposition for certain time, the surface roughness of FTO film decreases, the electric field near the surface becomes uniform, especially, the negative charged TNRs repel each other, and their strong Brownian motion causes restructure and rearrange of deposited TNR [25]. Therefore, it is not surprising that ordered TNR film can be easily obtained due to the synergistic effects of the above factors [34].
3.3. Phase Structure and Morphology of the Calcined TNR/SnO2 Film
XRD was used to identify and determine the phase structures of the calcined TNR/SnO2 film. Figure 3 shows the XRD patterns of the FTO substrate and the TNR/SnO2 film calcined at various temperatures. As shown in Figure 3(a), for pure FTO substrate, strong and sharp diffraction peaks can be observed, and all peaks are indexed to SnO2 (space group: P42/mnm (136); Å, Å, JCPDS no. 46–1088). Figures 3(b)–3(e) show the XRD patterns of the TNR/SnO2 film calcined at 300 to 600°C. At 300°C, it can be seen that only SnO2 phase is identified in the calcined TNR/SnO2 film and no other diffraction peaks are observed, indicating the amorphous states of TNR film. However, as the calcination temperature increases to 400°C, a small peak at 2θ= 25.5° appears, indicating the formation of anatase phase (space group: I41/amd (141); Å, Å, JCPDS no. 21–1272). With further increase in calcination temperature from 400 to 600°C, the peak intensities of anatase increase, implying the enhancement of crystallization of the anatase phase and the growth of crystallites.
Further observation on the morphology and microstructure of the calcined TNR/SnO2 film was performed with SEM. Figures 4(a) and 4(b) show the surface and cross section SEM images of the TNR/SnO2 film calcined at 600°C for 2 hours. As shown in Figure 4(a), the calcined TNR still exhibits relatively uniform and ordered structure. The nanoribbons are densely packed and deposited almost along the same direction, which are parallel to the substrate, and the thickness of calcined TNR film is about 4 μm (Figure 4(b)). Moreover, Figure 4(b) shows that the SnO2 film exhibits a thickness of about 500 nm. This SEM observation confirms the intimate contact between TiO2 film and SnO2 film, which could facilitate the interfacial transfer of photogenerated electrons and holes.
3.4. Photocatalytic Activity of Calcined TNR/SnO2 Films
The photocatalytic activity of the TNR/SnO2 film calcined at various temperatures was evaluated by photocatalytic decolorization of RhB aqueous solution at room temperature under UV irradiation. However, under dark conditions without light illumination, the concentration of RhB almost does not change for every measurement in the presence of calcined TNR/SnO2 film. Illumination in the absence of calcined TNR/SnO2 film does not result in the photocatalytic decolorization of RhB. Therefore, the presence of both UV illumination and calcined TNR/SnO2 film is necessary for the efficient degradation. Figure 5 shows the apparent rate constants () of TNR/SnO2 film calcinated at various temperatures. It can be seen that the calcination temperature has a great effect on the photocatalytic activity of the TNR/SnO2 films. The TNR/SnO2 films calcined at 300°C show weak photocatalytic activity probably due to absence or low crystallization of anatase phase in the calcined TNR film. However, when the calcination temperature increases to 400°C, the calcined TNR/SnO2 film shows a decent photocatalytic activity, and the corresponding value reaches K/min. This can be attributed to the formation of anatase phase and the bilayer structures of TiO2/SnO2 films in favor of separation of photogenerated charge carrier [14, 16–18, 35–37]. Figure 6 show the charge separation and transfer mechanism of TiO2/SnO2 films. Both TiO2 and SnO2 are -type semiconductors with bandgap energies greater than 3.0 eV and strongly absorb UV light. Upon bandgap excitation, charge carriers (electron-hole pairs) are generated in each semiconductor film. The conduction band (CB) edges of anatase TiO2 and SnO2 are located at −0.34 and +0.07 V versus normal hydrogen electrode (NHE) at pH 7, respectively. The valence band (VB) edge of SnO2 (+3.67 V) is more positive than that of anatase TiO2 (+2.87 V) [36, 37]. In terms of the energetics, electrons flow into the SnO2 layer, while holes oppositely diffuse into the TiO2 layer. Consequently, more holes reach the TiO2 surface to cause oxidation reaction, whereas electrons are probably consumed for reduction of O2 at the edge of the SnO2 film. Therefore, the interfacial electrons transfer from TiO2 to SnO2 can explain the high photocatalytic activity of the TiO2/SnO2 films. That is to say, a better charge separation in the composite film is enhanced by a fast electron-transfer process from the conduction band of TiO2 to that of SnO2. Levy et al. [38] and Zhou et al. [19] also reported the same results that photoelectrons and holes transferred toward the reverse direction on the interface of TiO2/SnO2, resulting in a good photocatalytic activity.
As the temperature further increases, the photocatalytic activity of the calcined TNR/SnO2 films increased obviously due to the enhancement of crystallization of anatase (Figure 3). At 600°C, the highest photocatalytic activity is observed, and the value is about K/min, which can be ascribed to good crystallization and the fast photogenerated charge carriers separation and transfer at the interface of the calcined TNR/SnO2 films.
Figure 7 shows the change of absorption spectra of RhB aqueous solution during photocatalytic decolorization using the TNR/SnO2 films calcined at 600°C as the photocatalyst. It can be seen that the intensity of absorption peak gradually decreases with increasing UV irradiation time. After UV irradiation for ca. 300 min, the intensity of absorption peak of RhB aqueous solution is very weak, and it becomes colorless, indicating that the calcined TNR films can completely decolorize RhB aqueous solution under UV irradiation. Therefore, the ordered TNR/SnO2 films prepared by the EPD method could be useful for environmental protection such as air purification, water disinfection, and hazardous waste remediation due to their cheap preparation process, controllable structure, strong adhesion, and good photocatalytic activity.
4. Conclusions
We have successfully fabricated ordered TNR/SnO2 via an EPD method using hydrothermally prepared TNR as a precursor. The formation mechanism of ordered TNR film on FTO glass substrate was investigated by SEM. The calcination temperature has a great effect on the phase structure and photocatalytic activity of TNR/SnO2 films. When the calcination temperature increases to 600°C, the highest photocatalytic activity was obtained on the calcined TNR/SnO2 film due to the formation of well-crystallized anatase phase, the unique morphology, and the fast charge carrier separation and transfer at the interface of TiO2 and SnO2. This ordered TNR/SnO2 should also have many potential applications in photocatalysis, catalysis, solar cell, and so on.
This work was partially supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded Project (20100471164). This work was also financially supported by the Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Material, Educational Commission of Hubei Province of China (Q20091007), and Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China (2009CDB351).
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During the course of a day spent digging through the Rich O's beer stocks in search of vintages for culling at the sale Saturday (if you missed it, a few bottles are left and can be purchased by appointment with me), I found a treasure trove of five-year-old Adam and Fred from the Hair of the Dog Brewery in Portland, Oregon.
The bottles had been pulled, unlabeled, straight from the bottling line by our good friend Phil "Biscuit" Timperman, who at the time was helping at the brewery. Now he's gainfully employed at the Horse Brass Pub, and should become mayor of Portland with a decade.
At last night's FOSSILS meeting, I poured nips of the 10% abv Adam, and it was exquisite, with a nutty aroma and palate, not at all heavy in the mouth, and overall possessing qualities you'd expect from a liqueur, not a beer.
Rest assured, the Fred will be next, but needless to say - these aren't for sale.
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More students than ever are living under the fuel poverty line.
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Young people suffering fuel poverty, says new research
Ecologist staff writer
12th July, 2012
It's a problem more usually associated with pensioners but according to new research fuel poverty has become an issue amongst younger people – particularly students - too.
The new report, entitled 'Significant invisibles: Energy vulnerability among young urban adults' is authored by Birmingham University research scientist, Dr Saska Petrova, who is based at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences where her special interest is in community transitions as they relate to natural resource management, energy consumption, social justice and governance.
The UK Fuel Poverty Strategy 2001 defines fuel poverty as where households have to spend more than 10 per cent of their income before housing costs on heating their homes to an acceptable level - defined, in turn, by the World Health Organisation, (WHO), as 18-21 degrees Celcius which it states is the range needed to create a healthy indoor temperature.
Because it is older people, plus those affected by disability or illness who have been more commonly thought to be affected, all the government initiatives aimed at eliminating fuel poverty have been targeted at these groups and not younger people.
But Dr Petrova's report - based on a study of young people living in the Birmingham district of Bournbrook and presented to the Royal Geographical Society earlier this month – found a large proportion of flat-sharers, particularly students, living in fuel poverty in poor quality and inefficient housing.
"This group represents a part of society that is invisible to fuel poverty assistance," she reported. "Many of them do not even realise they are experiencing fuel poverty even when they are suffering from inadequate warmth."
Dr Petrova added that the situation is exacerbated by the widespread cultural expectation that it is acceptable for younger people to live in poorly-heated and low quality housing and said both landlords and universities need to take a more active role in helping to eliminate fuel poverty for students.
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Archive for April, 2012
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Monday, 30 April 2012The .Gif Friday Post No.226 – Starry Night, Blue Wiggle Girl & Creepy Sharpie Man
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Sunday, 22 April 2012Saturday Matinee – Space Night, John Prine, Walk Off The Earth, Cowboy Mouth & Rick Danko
Saturday, 21 April 2012Inspired by a version of the opening sequence of this clip called 'What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?', I tracked down the original time-lapse sequence taken on the International Space Station (ISS) via NASA, found some additional ones there, including the spectacular Aurora Australis sequences, and set it to a soundtrack that almost matches the awe and wonder I feel when I see our home from above.
Time lapse of Earth at night is VERY cool.
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- "Wasted Forces", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 15, July 1879
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1) n. a person so poor and needy that he/she cannot provide the necessities of life (food, clothing, decent shelter) for himself/herself. 2) n. one without sufficient income to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case. If the court finds a person is an indigent, the court must appoint a public defender or other attorney to represent him/her. This Constitutional right of counsel for the indigent was determined by Gideon v. Wainright in 1963, when a penciled letter from a prisoner came to the attention of prominent Washington attorney Abe Fortas, who carried the case to the Supreme Court for free. Fortas later became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. 3) adj. referring to a person who is very poor and needy.


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i posted a while back about this card - a 1967 topps dodgers rookie stars -
that gene michael was kind enough to sign and return. i sent it back out, this time to tom hutton, and he quickly signed and returned it as well.
hutton also signed his 1976 topps
and 1978 topps cards for me
which is awesome in and of itself. i love love love getting some 1978 topps signed.
hutton debuted in the majors for the dodgers in 1966. he went 0 for 2 in 3 games for the nl champs. his first two games were games in which koufax was pitching, and his third was in a drysdale shutout. he replaced willie crawford in the 9th inning of his major league debut, and got his first at-bat a few days later when he replaced wes parker in the 7th inning. he grounded out against the phillies' john morris, but at least he moved the runner over.
hutton didn't appear in the big leagues again until 1969 when he was called up for a two-week stint to replace the injured parker at first. hutton got his first big league hit (a single) in his first game back against hank aguirre of the cubs. when parker returned, hutton was sent down and never appeared as a dodger again.
in october of 1971, the dodgers traded hutton to the phillies for larry hisle and hutton quickly became the phils' regular first baseman. he had hits in his first 3 at-bats for the phillies, including a game winning, walk off single. after 6 seasons in philadelphia, including two trips to the postseason, hutton was purchased by the blue jays in december of 1977. i have always wondered why he didn't get a card in the 1978 o-pee-chee set - there was plenty of time after the transaction occurred to include him and get the team and text variation set, especially since he was going to one of the two canadian teams. speaking of which, hutton played for both teams - toronto and montreal - in 1978.
back to that 1967 card. it bothers me that topps didn't take the time to airbrush a dodger hat on gene michael. i found a team issued postcard and replaced the photo to create the 1967 topps dodgers rookie stars card that should have been
much better.
thanks tommy!
20 July 2010
when tom hutton signs, people listen
1967 topps,
1976 topps,
1978 topps,
dodger stadium,
2 comments:
- Fuji said...
Mr. Hutton has an awesome autograph... you gotta love it when you they sign their whole name. Congratulations.
- July 20, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- mmmrhubarb said...
Great post title! Wonder how many whippersnappers don't get it, though?
- July 20, 2010 at 2:24 PM
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DNA Testing of California Arrestees Shot Down; 'Grim Sleeper' Suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr. Wouldn't Have Been Caught Without It
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We totally get the Fourth Amendment crusade against testing the DNA of any and every person arrested on felony charges:
It's invasive, preemptive and Big Brother-esque.
But even if only 50 percent of said arrestees are convicted of their charges -- a 2009 figure cited by Brown-appointed Presiding Justice J. Anthony Kline before declaring the tests unconstitutional last week in state appellate court -- a close-to-home accused serial killer makes us wonder. Might a couple big fish be worth the discomfort/righteousness of the exonerated?
Including one of the biggest, baddest fish ever to (allegedly) rape and pillage Los Angeles:
Lonnie Franklin Jr., suspected of killing at least 10 black prostitutes in South L.A. And just yesterday, though Franklin's has pleaded "not guilty" to all charges so far, LAPD investigators announced they've linked 230 more missing persons to the horrific spree.
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In August 2008, before Franklin was arrested, Christine Pelisek, former LA Weekly crimehunter, named the ruthless, faceless serial killer "The Grim Sleeper" after stumbling across a back room filled with victim photos and clues at the LAPD's homicide headquarters.
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The science of testing for familial DNA was hotly pursued by LAPD in 2008 when police realized that the Grim Sleeper sociopath, who had been slaughtering people since 1985, had kept his nose clean and stayed out of jail. ...No doubt, working with police every day as an LAPD mechanic, he knew every trick for avoiding arrest. He knew cop lingo and police habits.
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His son's DNA, police tell LA Weekly, matched in so many ways that LAPD knew they'd found a close relative of Grim Sleeper, the most elusive serial killer to ever haunt the Western United States.
Felony trials are long and hard to prove. For guys as system-savvy as Franklin, avoiding jail time is only a matter of delays and precautions and slippery legal tactics. Swabbing for DNA at the time of arrest could provide access to the smartest -- and therefore, perhaps, most dangerous -- of criminals.
The (very legitimate) fear at the heart of the ACLU fight against arrestee DNA testing is that the entire sample is kept in an FBI database, instead of just used by local police for identification, like a familial fingerprint.
We're the first to raise an eyebrow at anything that plays into the feds' roundabout drive to obtain full biometric profiles of everyone who so much as talks to police. See: "FBI Documents Reveal ICE's 'Secure Communities' Program Was Mandated to Further FBI's Own Creepy Biometric Database."
From a Journal print story: "Some fear that gene technologies will be developed down the road to unearth even more private information, like whether someone has a predilection for violence."
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Democracy and Dictatorship: The Nature and Limits of State PowerISBN: 978-0-7456-1912-5
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Corresponding dichotomies.
The evaluative use of the great dichotomy.
The second meeting of the dichotomy.
Part II: Civil Society:.
The various meanings.
The Marxian interpretation.
The Hegelian system.
The natural law tradition.
Civil society as civilised society.
The current debate.
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Towards the study of the state.
The name and the thing.
The state and power.
The foundation of power.
State and law.
The forms of government.
Forms of state.
The end of the state.
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Democracy in the theory of governmental forms.
The descriptive use.
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WASHINGTON DC – USA – Foreign Secretary, Hillary Clinton ate a bluebottle fly that was nestling on president Barack Obama's face during a speech yesterday.
"She took one look at the fly which was going in and out of Obama's mouth and she struck at it with her stretchy tongue. You see folks, Hillary has a tongue like a lizard and it was so goddamn quick we all just sat back in awe. No one even got a photo. She was standing at least three feet away and you should have seen the look of pleasure on her face when she swiped that fly with her special tongue and munched away. Obama was at first stunned, but immediately thanked Mrs Clinton for her help in getting rid of that pesky fly," Arnold Grosspoint, a senior features editor for MSNBC reported.
There have been rumours circulating throughout Capitol Hill about Hillary's extraordinary abilities to shapeshift – although anyone who has ever witnessed the amazing phenomenon has never been seen alive again – certainly little clues have pointed towards her other-worldly qualities.
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The burger sounds delicious! I love fried pickles and always order them if they're on the menu. I want them right now!
That stinks about the pushy server. I'm a fast eater, but my bf is a slow eater. I would've said something to the server though…because I'm kinda mean
Mmm… fried pickles–I've never had those before! I'm a slower eater than my husband. I'm happy to be left alone, unless I need something (salt, pepper, something to drink), in which case waiting to flag down wait staff is annoying.
Sometimes I'm fast, other times I'm slow – depends how much I'm talking
I pretty much like to be left alone when I'm dining. My favorite places are the ones where you don't even notice the service – your wine glass is refilled and you don't remember how. It also depends on my mood – If I'm eating alone at the bar, I sometimes like to make conversation with the bartender, and I often ask wait staff for reccos on the menu….
But my favorite part of fine dining is definitely when the tablecloth gets 'crumb scraped' between courses….I don't know why, but it thrills me.
I totally missed you at the Festival! Next year I need to look for you more carefully! I love your blog and I would have love to chat with you! I'm totally a "leave-me-eat-in-peace" costumer. I don't like being constantly bothered and I eat very slow so I get interrupted pretty often usually. I need to try Huber Keller's as both my hubby and I looove burgers! Thanks for the suggestion


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27 Simple Ways To Check For Understanding
Checking for understanding is the foundation of teaching.
Whether you're using formative assessment for data to personalize learning within a unit, or more summative data to refine a curriculum map, the ability to quickly and easily check for understanding is a critical part of what you do. (Which was the idea behind our post last March, "10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds Or Less.")
The following infographic Mia MacMeekin offers up 27 additional ways to check for understanding. Some aren't necessarily quick–"Test what you learned in a new situation"–but there are a dozen or more other ideas that are worth adding to your teacher toolbox, many of which aren't content-related, but rather cognitively-related (Locate 3 people who agree with your point of view.)
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Designing Professional Development for Change: A Guide for Improving Classroom Instruction (2nd Revised edition)
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This compact resource highlights the essential role of professional development in bringing about systemic change that benefits student achievement. The book offers practical methods for designing, promoting, and assessing change and stresses the important role that learning transfer plays in academic improvement and lifelong learning. The new features in this substantially updated revision include: a focus on the site-based professional developer's role as a champion for change in a student-centered learning community; a framework that guides professional developers through three stages of implementation; attention on assessing low-performing students' learning needs as the starting point for creating sustainable change that improves academic achievement schoolwide; and, emphasis on mediated learning experiences and skillful coaching for adult learners as they gather information and implement new approaches.Create a review
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James Bellanca is a life-long advocate for the principles and practices created by Reuven Feuerstein. As a Senior Fellow for the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, he created and edits the innovative P21Blogazine. He is the editor of a series of 21st Century Deeper Learning collections, has authored more than a dozen how-to books aimed to infuse critical and creative thinking across the curriculum and is President of the Illinois Consortium for 21st Century Schools.Contents
Preface to the Second Edition 1. Why Change? 2. A Paradigm Shift 3. Getting to the Heart of the Matter 4. Transfer: A Different Way of Learning 5. Learning Transfer in the Learning Community 6. The Three Stages of Professional Development for Change 7. A Reality Check 8. The Sustainability Factor 9. A Professional Developer's Checklist for Change ReferencesProduct Details
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January 8, 2004
Nothing Radical Behind the Serbian Election by Nebojsa Malic
On the last Sunday in 2003, Serbian voters sent a message of protest and rage to both their domestic tyrants and their foreign backers, giving the largest number of votes (but not a majority) to the Radical Party. The result was predictable, and indeed predicted by some observers, yet still came as a shock to the legions of professional fussers mired in wishful thinking.
Most commentary, from government as well as media and pundits, can be reduced to East German poet Berthold Brecht's onetime comment that it would be easier for the government to "dissolve the People and elect another."
For the amount of media noise it has attracted, the December 28 vote will make surprisingly little difference. Serbia will still get a government with far too much power over people's lives, whoever ends up in charge of it, while the Empire will applaud democracy but continue to reserve the "right" to demand absolute obedience nonetheless.
Solana: Elect a New People, Instead
One important thing to note about this election is its apparent propriety: i.e. there were no objections to the conduct of the polls, and no allegations of theft or irregularities. As much as that is ever possible, the election was fair. But the world's masters aren't interested in processes, only desirable results. Thus outside pressure began on other Serbian parties to form a coalition government at the first news of a Radical victory.
Washington's spokesman thus taunted the safely imprisoned Milosevic, commended the Serbian devotion to the forms of democratic religion, and then rattled off a list of demands for whichever government is put together in Belgrade. Clearly, they were only interested in obedience. European Union's foreign policy commissar Javier Solana, on the other hand, may have been motivated by ideological zeal:
"I appeal to all democratic forces to work together to ensure that a new government based on a clear and strong European reform agenda can be formed rapidly."
Unfortunately for ForPolCom Solana and other advocates of a "neo-DOS," the past three years of just such a regime have created bad blood not only among the people, but among the quisling politicians as well. After heading just such a coalition, only to be discarded and humiliated by its svengali, leader of the Serbian Democrats (DSS) Vojislav Kostunica is reluctant to repeat the experience. Modern Serbia being what it is, however, everything is possible.
Media Coverage: Fear and Hysteria
Western media faithfully echoed the official positions in Brussels and Washington, often with more zeal. The prevalent themes in reports from Serbia were the absolute disdain for Milosevic, Seselj and their parties, and the "need" for a united government of "reformers" to keep the "forces of darkness" (Times of London) away from government.
Another big theme was Slobodan Milosevic, who won a parliamentary seat despite his imprisonment. Thus the Associated Press announced "Milosevic seeking a comeback," and many others mentioned his candidacy in addition to seething over the Radicals' triumph.
Reuters's analyst actually believed the Radical upset was not sufficient to throw out the "reformers." France-Presse, on the other hand, noted how the results were frustrating to both Brussels and Washington.
A Guardian reporter explained the results by the "attraction of the nationalist 'Greater Serbian' project." An editorial in that paper actually mentioned the "militant nationalism that has never been far from the dark heart of Serbian politics."
The Economist's analysis reflected nothing so much as a frustration with the Serbian people, who dared to displease the Eurocrats.
American papers were a bit more circumspect, preferring to express their preferences through the subterfuge of editorial guidance. Thus the NY Times published grim predictions of a pro-Western analyst comparing Serbia to 1933 Germany, while The Christian Science Monitor carried similarly plaintive assessments by Belgrade intellectuals committed to post-national globalism.
Even local US papers such as The Charleston Post thought it somehow appropriate to opine on Serbia's rejection of "stable democracy."
Perhaps the most straightforward was the editorial in Japan's Asahi Shimbun, which may also have been a shrewd analysis of the real Imperial agenda:
"The reconstruction of a country and its democratization are not easy. But unless they are carried out, the rationale for intervention will be called into question. Failure in Serbia will not be tolerated."
Adventures in Social Engineering
Failure of what, precisely? As it turns out, many in the Empire and some in Serbia itself see it as an experiment in social engineering, an attempt to turn a traditional nation into a post-modern post-society. The Empire thus failed to support the Dossie government because it was no longer able to pursue the agenda of de-Serbing the Serbs through the introduction of "multi-culturalism," "democracy," "free market" and "tolerance," all concepts with exact opposite meanings in reality.
For example, according to The Independent's Belgrade correspondent, Serbs have a "misunderstanding" of market economy: "they think selling off state-owned companies to Western ones is a betrayal of the national interest." Well, that's because it is. Not to mention a violation of basic property rights, since the state came to "own" those companies by confiscating assets of its subjects, whether the actual enterprises or the money needed to build them. Between selling stolen assets for pennies on the dollar, taxing the people harder than ever, and incurring more foreign debt, it's a wonder the Dossies lived to be thrown out of government. Many Serb rulers weren't as lucky.
From the same perspective comes perhaps the worst and stupidest analysis of the Serbian political situation by a scholar at the "Centre for the Study of Global Governance," at the London School of Economics and Political Science. One Denisa Kostovicova bemoans the Serbs' stubborn refusal to destroy their society and culture and embark on a massive project to remake themselves into Eurodrones. Invoking the idiotic thesis by some post-German that "a nation's defeat may trigger its democratic rebirth," she argues that the NATO bombing and the October coup were a way of liberating and emancipating the Serbs from themselves.
To support her argument, Kostovicova quotes an essay by Slobodan Antonic, published in February 2003, supposedly criticizing Serbia's "missionary intelligence" � that is, Kostovicova's "true democrats." Only trouble is, while Antonic is criticizing the "missionaries" for excessive zeal, he actually shares their values: devotion to State, hatred of society and nation as backward and barbaric, a commitment to social engineering. So, even those who subscribe to the multi-cultism of the globalist Left but without sufficient hatred and militant zeal risk being branded "nationalists." One is tempted to think being a nationalist might not be so bad, if it means being opposed to these lunatics.
Serbophobes Unleashed
Not surprisingly, Serbia's choices provided an opportunity for professional Serb-haters to ply their trade, seeking perhaps to reawaken the hysteria of the 1990s. Marcus Tanner, writing in The Independent and reprinted by the Toronto Star, seemed torn between denigrating the object of his hatred and making it look menacing enough, so he did both. In Tanner's view, Serbia is a "furious old cat, hissing away through toothless jaws," which also left "western strategy in the Balkans in ruins."
To Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Washington Times, Vojislav Seselj is the Hitler Reborn, and the Radicals are Nazis. He dares condemn Serbia for harboring "imperial dreams of national expansion," (!) and openly advocates the immediate independence of Kosovo. Kuhner also calls for Washington to approach Croatia's new "neo-conservative" government (that is by no means a compliment � except in Kuhner's eyes � but if the shoe fits�) to establish an alliance as a "deterrent against Serbian expansionism."
What surprises is a lack of similar screeds by partisans of Bosnian Muslims, or Kosovo Albanians (where is Veton Surroi when the International Herald Tribune needs him?).
In truth, Empire has little to fear, though its agents in Serbia may have some reason for hysteria, as their years of acting with impunity may well be over for now. The Radicals are not strong enough to form a government, but will have just enough clout to make those who want to kowtow to the Empire walk very carefully. Together with Milosevic's Socialists, they have just enough votes to block major legislative endeavors. Given the sort of state-expanding laws the Serbian parliament (and others, for that matter) is in the habit of passing, that won't be a bad thing at all.
It is Christmas season in Serbia right now, since the Serbian Orthodox Church adheres to the old Julian calendar. That means a new government won't be formed before next week at the earliest. The parliament should meet before the end of the month. In all likelihood, Vojislav Kostunica and his DSS will get to put together a minority government, but their chances of success are slim. Everyone knows that whoever becomes the next Prime Minister will face the same bleak reality of vassalage under constant Imperial extortion, and constant security threats, external and internal. Coping with this requires vision and leadership, which are in very short supply.
As for the people of Serbia, they may not fully understand the principles of liberty just yet, but they have instinctively rejected a form of tyranny that had pestered them for three years. Now they only need to heed the words of C.S. Lewis: "those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Stopping the torment altogether � now that would be a good New Year's resolution.
Nebojsa Malic
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Archived Columns
Nothing Radical 1/8/04
Quo Vadis? What's in Store for 2004 12/25/03
Mr. Clark Goes To The Hague 12/18/03
Twisted Words, False Justice 12/11/03
Return to the Right? 11/27/03
Serbia's Voting Woes 11/20/03
An Edifice of Lies 11/6/03
The Untouchables 10/30/03
The Real Izetbegovic 10/23/03
Agents of Empire 10/16/03
Visiting the Vassals 10/9/03
Return to the Crime Scene 9/25/03
Citizen Clark? 9/18/03
The Lost Terror War 9/11/03
Balkans Online 9/4/03
The Black Hole of Nation-Building 8/28/03
Fresh Blood in Kosovo 8/21/03
Empires and Balkans Don't Mix 8/14/03
The New Janissaries 8/7/03
The Worthy Balkans Booklist 7/31/03
Worthless Words 7/10/03
Liars, Halfwits, Inquisitors and Thieves 7/3/03
The Serbian Lincoln? 6/26/03
Paragons of Empire 6/19/03
Remember Kosovo? 6/12/03
Retrospect: Balkans And the Big Picture A Year Later 6/5/03
Bosnia's Founding Stepfather 5/29/03
The Folly That Is Europe 5/26/03
Lies Reporters Tell 5/15/03
Worshippers of Power and Violence 5/8/03
After 'Liberation,' Democracy 5/1/03
Empire's 'Liberation' 4/17/03
Bolsheviks in Belgrade 4/10/03
Seeking Scapegoats 4/3/03
The Argument of Force 3/27/03
Alley of the Damned 3/20/03
Death of a Manager 3/12/03
From Kosovo to Baghdad 3/6/03
Genocide Games 2/20/03
Excuses and Justifications 2/13/03
Yugoslavia's End 2/6/03
Balkanizing the World 1/30/03
A Chauvinistic Farce 1/23/03
The 12 Months of Christmas 12/26/02
More Dirty Lies 12/19/02
Democratic Destruction 12/12/02
Forged Memories 11/28/02
Making the Balkans Connection 11/21/02
Remembering the Obvious 11/7/02
Empire's Playground 10/31/02
Casus Belli 10/24/02
Forward to The Past 10/10/02
The Unbearable Futility of Voting 10/3/02
A Global Balkans 9/26/02
Triumph of the Will 9/19/02
The Day Nothing Changed 9/12/02
Illusions of Truth and Justice 9/5/02
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Leslie Jones Was HACKED.
I hate people.
Leslie Jonesââ¬â¢s iCloud was somehow hacked to gain access to personal, intimate photos of her along with photos of her passport and driverââ¬â¢s license, and then put on her website for all to see. In case you're wondering why someone might've done this, all you have to do is look to all the racist garbage on her site, in addition to personal info, including a video of the slain gorilla Harambe. And, I want to vomit.
Leslie brought widespread awareness last month to the massive problem of racist trolls on Twitter, which led to changes on the social networking platform including the banning of Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos and erasure of hundreds of thousands of accounts in the same vein. Now, things had calmed down for a while, and the Olympics even invited Leslie to come to Rio and commentate along with meeting athletes and generally having an amazing, one-of-a-kind time. And then, she comes back to her personal identity being hacked, mocked and savagely trolled. Disgusting.
Thankfully, a lot of people have come to Leslie's side, supporting her, tweeting at her and showing her that not everyone in this world is a total piece of garbage. This goes beyond a hate crime, and cuts deep into our opinion on women of color, women and success, women of age and essentially- how women are still a complete threat to men if they don't fit in the confines of conventional looks, actions and categorization.
These hackers need to be prosecuted. And HARD.
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You'll visit the owner's own sheep farm and look inside their working wool shed. Learn all about sheep farming from real farmers! Feed and touch pet sheep, lambs, other animals and birds, then, be welcomed (in Maori) inside the historic family Homestead to enjoy a homemade afternoon tea. Round-off your Eco-tour by offsetting your carbon emissions from your tour by having the unique opportunity to purchase and plant a Native tree from the farm nursery, and you will leave content to know that your own tree will remain growing fully tagged and protected by local Government Law! Member discount: Notes:
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High RRP but the functionality plus the sheer amount of connectivity options makes it a winner.
The brains behind Dell have made an interesting call recently: they're moving the focus of the company's attention away from the strict tech side of the market and more toward the consumer. The reasoning is that as PCs and notebooks become more mainstream, people are less interested in speeds and specs. Instead, the theory goes, we'll be more interested in buying a PC for the home, much like a fridge or a dryer.
While this doesn't faze those of us who love digging through specification sheets and reading PC Authority, the move from Dell does herald a further interesting switch in approach: Dell is entering the consumer market.
The first such consumer product from Dell is the W1900, a 19in widescreen LCD TV which shows much promise.
Spec-wise it looks quite good on paper, with 450cd/m2 brightness, 600:1 contrast ratio and 1280 x 768 widescreen resolution, and it doesn't disappoint when fired up. It does have a slowish 25ms response time, but when used as a TV, this isn't noticeable as it's slightly faster than TV broadcast standards. Computing, gaming and DVDs are also good on the W1900, particularly when used in conjunction with the PiP (picture in picture) and PBP (picture by picture) modes. The latter splits the screen in two, so you can have a spreadsheet open on one page, and the TV news in the other. Or for that matter you can mix-and-match from any other inputs you have. Which brings me to an important point.
This remote control is a sexy thing too, with blue LED backlighting on the number-pad, glossy black plastic and silver metallic scalloped edges – it's not your typical cheapo TV remote.
The W1900 is not all good though. Some of the controls are finicky, in particular the volume. While capable of impressive loudness, turning the volume up or down with the remote is a hassle. The unit's not initially too responsive; the volume marker glacially slides along the indicator line, then suddenly zooms to either end. This means there's a lot of juggling involved in getting the volume right, from far too loud, to far too quiet, then up a bit, down a bit, and so on. To do it safely you either need to use the monitor's own side-mounted buttons or engage in an exercise of press, press, press, press, press as you bunny-hop the volume along the scale with the remote. It's the same with setting contrasts or any other operation with the OSD that has a slider.
The audio, on the other hand is great, with the integrated 2-way SRS surround speakers capable of good clarity and fidelity. It's no match for a good stereo, but for a flat panel display it's quite impressive. The image quality is likewise excellent, regardless of input. While the monitor is good as a primary TV, it really is best suited as a PC monitor with TV capabilities.
It's just that little bit too small to look at across a lounge room – particularly if you're navigating the OSD, but it does make for a good-looking monitor.
Currently, Dell is offering this for an RRP of $1499, but periodically I've seen special offers that have dropped this by a few hundred. Considering the all-in-oneness of the W1900's connectivity and functionality of the screen, it's probably worth waiting for a similar price drop as it makes the deal just that little bit sweeter.
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He was signed as a free agent by Anaheim in August 1995 and played his first NHL game as a Mighty Duck. In his first NHL season, he totaled 21 points in 64 games for Anaheim. He played 18 games for the Ducks the following year before being traded to to Pittsburgh in October as part of a multi-player deal. He had 20 points in 55 games for the Penguins. Added to the eight he had tallied in Anaheim, the 1996-97 season was his best to date.
His made a return appearance with the Pens in 1997-98, playing in 58 games and earning 20 points. San Jose signed Hicks as a free agent in October 1998, but after only four games with the Sharks he was traded to Florida. He finished that season and began the next with the Panthers organization, but a knee injusry suffered during training camp kept him sidelined for most of the 1999-2000 season. He is currently playing in Europe.


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This will be my last event in NYC before we head out to LA on May 20th. Would be great to see lots of familiar faces there for my last hurrah. Blue Sky Studios will also be on hand showing behind-the-scenes on their latest CG animated film, Rio. This is full-circle for me, as I moved to the East Coast 17 years ago to animate for Blue Sky!


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THIS IS ONLY FOR VERSION 1.1 or prior
See Enable Remote Desktop (VNC) After 1.1 Update for newer instructions
These instructions assume you already have SSH access to your Apple TV.
Step 1
To enable Remote Desktop on your Apple TV, you need to create the text file com.apple.VNCSettings.txt with the following content. This is a hashed password "frontrow" which is used by VNC Server. The password "frontrow" was chosen to be easy to remember. Other passwords may be used as described below.
To generate your own password, run this command:
perl -nwe 'BEGIN { @k = unpack "C*", pack "H*", "1734516E8BA8C5E2FF1C39567390ADCA"}; \ chomp; s/^(.{8}).*/$1/; @p = unpack "C*", $_; foreach (@k) { printf "%02X", $_ ^ (shift @p || 0) }; print "\n"'
Ignore the "Useless use of single ref constructor in void context at -e line 2." error message. Just start typing and hit enter when you've finished typing your password. It will show the hashed version of the password after you hit enter. If you mess up, just hit enter and ignore the incorrect password hash. Type Ctrl-C to stop the script.
- Note: Alternatively, if you are already logged into the AppleTV you could simply issue the following command. Afterwards skip to Step 3.
echo 71463E00FFDAAA95FF1C39567390ADCA > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.VNCSettings.txt
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Copy that file to /Library/Preferences/ on your Apple TV. (Note: /Library/Preferences on the OSBoot image is a sym link to the Media partition)
Step 3
once you copy the RemoteManagement core service to appletv's /System/Library/CoreServices/ folder, then On the Apple TV, type:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart \ -configure -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart \ -activate -configure -access -on -users frontrow -privs -all -restart -agent -menu
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Use a VNC Client like Chicken of the VNC which should automatically detect the AppleTV on your network. The password is "frontrow"
See Replace Finder for interesting things you can do once you have control (run firefox, terminal, etc). It doesn't seem to work very well with the default Apple TV finder.
Users running Leopard (OS X 10.5) will be able to use the Screen Sharing as a VNC client.
See Configuring Apple Remote Desktop via the command line or for more detailed information on the kickstart command, or for the various command switches and options, type:
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Justin Yifu Lin
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow and WIDER Annual Lecturer 15 (2011)
Mr Lin is Councilor of the State Council and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He is also a member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference and Vice Chairman of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012.
Prior to joining the Bank, Mr Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University and is the author of 24 books including Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession, The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy, Demystifying the Chinese Economy, Benti and Changwu: Dialogues on Methodology in Economics, and Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability.
He served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: Eminent Persons Council of the World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Steering Committee, the UN Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Global Agenda Council on the International Monetary System; Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee; and the Hong Kong-US Business Council.
He received honorary doctoral degrees from Universite D'Auvergne, Fordham University, Nottingham University, City University of Hong Kong, London School of Economics, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World. Mr Lin's main research interests are development, transition, industrial policy, structural transformation, agricultural economics.


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Ask The Cheesemonger: Because There's More to Learn About Cheese
Ask the Cheesemonger features a list of cheeses, with information on their taste, texture, and basic facts on the cheese's ingredients, like what sort of milk is used in the production of the cheese. There's also a wine matcher for matching up a delicious adult beverage with a cheese whose flavors will complement each other. There's a cheese trivia game, to test one's knowledge on cheese. Still have cheese questions? Then check out the "Ask the cheesemonger" section where common questions about cheese are answered, along with the ability to send an email directly to a cheesemonger. For $2.99, the full version of the app can be unlocked, granting acces to info on over 300 cheeses, additional trivia questions, and more alcohol pairings. Proceeds benefit cheesemongering.


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sniffadog necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 41 design presentati da 18 designer.
I need a "fun" orientated logo that represents a:) IT Support b:) Fun.
I.T.'S Broken!
ITS Broken! Not for long!
Desired Color Scheme:
not too bright, but fun
Desired Style:
no cartoon style, unless you are reallly good.... and even then ill think about it.
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
The site will probably be in bright colours (not too bright for ppl who hate Mondays)and a bit of tongue in cheek while holding some professionalism so the logo should match. IT would be good to Incoroporate the name into the logo, or it could be just the name, but with a twist. We are looking for a clean Web 2.0 look and it will probably be the first thing users will see before entering the web site..... ok right thats about it, now go for your life.